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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    CHAPTER V Acquired Syphilis CQUIRED syphilis is where the Spirochaeta pallida gains entrance to the body through a scratch, usually on the genitals, but also on the lips from kissing diseased people, or smoking pipes used by them. Dentists have become infected by scratching their fingers against teeth, and doctors not uncommonly from contact with syphilitic sores and secretions with the abraded finger. There have even been epidemics of the disease among lying-in women, and subsequently their husbands, from inoculation of the genitals by the fingers of midwives during labour. Sailors, soldiers, and civilians have been bitten by diseased people in street fights, and chancres have arisen on the injured spots. Jewish infants have been known to become infected when undergoing the rite of circumcision, and there is a case on record of a Rabbi infecting seven after circumcising a syph- ilitic child.