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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    In the summer of 1908 I attended the excel- lent Post-graduate College of the West London Hospital, and, in the out-patient departments, noticed that contagious disease was as conspicu- ous by its prevalence as it was at St Thomas’s Hospital; whilst in the children’s wards, there were an exceptionally large number of infants suffering from congenital syphilis. During the same summer a party of German Burgomasters came over to London, and were badly impressed by the physical condition and degenerate appearance of some of the school children. If they had also had some practical experience in the London Hospitals, it might have thrown a lurid light upon the probable reason of this deplorable state of affairs in many cases. In connection with this painful subject, a warn- ing may be taken from Spain and Portugal, two countries which in times gone by used to produce fine, martial, adventurous races, who are alleged to have decayed and lost their position in the world owing to the destructive influence of the virus of syphilis. Omen absit. Another interesting thing worth mentioning is the fact, that one of the reasons why the Boer women disliked our rule so much, was in con-
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