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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    was of considerable interest in reference to the laws of inheritance. A gentleman, who had lost several children, was sent to me by Dr W with the suggestion that he should be treated for latent taint. I found that he had been married five years, and that his wife’s first conception had ended in a miscarriage, she herself having an eruption. The next child was born dead, and the next died at three weeks old. The fourth, a girl (at this time an infant), had been delicate from birth, and had had snuffles. The father acknowledged syphilis within two years of marriage, and I quite concurred with Dr W that both parents should take a long course of mercury, with the hope of getting rid of the taint. The next child, a boy, died at six months without having shown anything specific ; and sub- sequently two were born which lived, and were apparently wholly free from the taint.” The following is an extract from Commentary 188:— “ I saw some years ago, with an accomplished surgeon from Lincolnshire, a young widow preg- nant with her first child. The disease was from her husband, just deceased. She had a copious eruption and a very bad throat, and was put
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