Sexual disease and its medical prevention / by H.N. Robson.

  • Robson, H. N.
Date:
1911
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Credit: Sexual disease and its medical prevention / by H.N. Robson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh, two cases by Christian Muller were mentioned. They were two women (virgins) who were the subjects of well marked signs of hereditary syphilis, and who died of general paralysis at the ages of forty-two and forty-three. The symptoms were not noticeable until a year or two before death. Innumerable other instances could be given of the dire effects of syphilis upon the individual, the home, and family life generally, but sufficient is written above to show that there is sound common-sense in the Japanese opinion, that to promote morality by the unchecked prevalence of a disease like syphilis is unwholesome, super- stitious, and contrary to the health and welfare of a nation. The fear of disease is a failure in the large cities and seaports of Great Britain and America; and modern humanity should de- mand the scientific application of prophylaxis or prevention.