On the foetus in utero as inoculating the maternal with the peculiarities of the paternal organism : and on the transmission thereby of secondary or constitutional syphilis from the male to the female parent / by Alexander Harvey, M.D.

  • Harvey, Alexander, 1811-1889.
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1859
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    ^ THE GLASGOW MEDICAL JOUENAL. Vol. VI.] JANUAKY, 1859. [No. 24. ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. I, On the Fcetus in UterOj as Inoculating the Maternal with the Peculiarities of the Paternal Organism; and on the Transviission thereby of Secondary or Constitutional Syphilis from the Male to the Female Parent. By ALEXANDER Hakvey, M.D., late Physician to the Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, &c. (Head before the Medical Society of Southampton, December 2, 1856.) It is now several years since first, in a series of papers in tlie Edinburgh Monthly Journal of Medical Science,'^ and afterwards in a separate pamphlet, dedicated to the Highland and Agricul- tural Society of Scotland,t I directed attention to a class of facts which seem to indicat^e that the foetus in utero may, and in fact Jiabitually does, inoculate- the female with the constitutional qualities of the male parent. 1 did not myself suggest the theory of inoculation. It had been advanced a short time before, in tlie columns of a provincial newspaper,| by Mr. James M'Gillivray, a veterinary surgeon in Aberdeenshire. But I may claim the merit of introducing it to the notice of the profession, and giving currency to it among the agricultural body; as well as of impart- ing to it a more scientific form, and placing it on a broader basis, than liad been done by Mr. M'Gillivray. In both the first and the second of the series of papers referred to, I pointed out the application of this principle to the question— Whether secondary syphilis may not thus be transmitted from the male- to the female; and it is to this question that I now Avish specially to call your attention, premising that my own has * October, 1849, and Octnljci- nnd November, 1850. t On a Remarkable Effect of Cross-Breeding. Edinburgh, IS)!, t The Aberdeen Journal for Mnrch 21 and 28, 1849.