On the degeneration of the neurone / [Sir F.W. Mott].

  • Frederick Walker Mott
Date:
1900
Catalogue details

Licence: In copyright

Credit: On the degeneration of the neurone / [Sir F.W. Mott]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    118/124 (page 116)
    plasm of the parents, particularly of the father, may be very unequal!} affected by the syphilitic poison, and it seemed to me that the inherited syphilis was not infrequently the result of spermatic infection only. Many of the mothers never had any illness that they knew of, yet some of their children showed syphilitic teeth, chorio-retinitis, rhagades, and other characteristic Fig. 59.—Photograph of congenital imbecile with depressed bridge of the nose. He also had Hutchinson’s teeth. A brother who died from juvenile general paralysis showed no such external signs. signs, while other children appeared perfectly healthy. Gene- rally, however, the history was — miscarriages, still births, syphilitic children, and healthy children iu succession. In one family there were three children ; the eldest had no external signs of congenital syphilis, but a syphilitic liver was found post mortem. He was an able-bodied seaman, but at the