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

  • Robson, H. N.
Date:
1911
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    an accident or an infection like tubercle or influenza reveals its latency. This is a serious state of things, to put it mildly, and it was admitted that tuberculous infection is very frequent in those who are subjects of inherited syphilis ; and it is worthy of remark that lunatics in asylums are peculiarly liable to die of tubercle in some form or other. Up to the present we have talked of syphilitic and tubercular inflammation of the joints as being two separate and distinct affections, whereas we now know that the two may co-exist, from tubercle attacking tissues degenerated by syphilis, whether acquired or congenital. The X-rays have assisted greatly in the matter, and have enabled the effects of hereditary syphilis to be detected at a far more advanced period of life than has hitherto been considered possible, and doctors can distinguish the difference between syphilitic inflammation of bones and the allied inflammations due to tubercle and acute rheu- matism in children. An injury or infection brings about renewed activity of the micro-organisms of syphilis, and when once they have been roused, the effect is not confined to the injured part. Patients have chronic affection of the tongue, known as leukoplakia, which occurs sometimes