A rare case of hereditary syphilis : with remarks on interstitial keratitis / by George Ogilvie.

  • Ogilvie, George.
Date:
1893
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Credit: A rare case of hereditary syphilis : with remarks on interstitial keratitis / by George Ogilvie. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    whilst the necropsy reveals no visible disease,24 and the malformation of the skull attributed to peri- ostitis in utero, whilst bone symptoms as a rule only develop in later stages, seem to point to the transmission of some weakening condition or diathesis. From a merely clinical point of view this double-faced aspect of hereditary syphilis is well characterised in Fournier’s saying: “La syphilis paternelle tue l’enfant plus souvent qu’elle ne se borne a lui transmettre la syphilis Even if the microbe of syphilis should be found, further investigations will have to show in what percentage of cases it has to be considered as the cause of interstitial keratitis. 24 As in my case No. 6, and in Hutchinson : Syphilis, p. 393. Welbeck Street, Cavendish Square, W.