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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    who died after lingering for years in a pitiful condition of paralysis. His first son I lost sight of, as he went abroad; his second son had typical teeth, and was somewhat defective men- tally ; a daughter was fragile in appearance, and more or less devoid of energy. The rector had “a stroke” which compelled him to resign his living, and soon afterwards he died from a second stroke, or apoplexy, caused by the bursting of an artery in the brain—the cerebral artery. This is a most ordinary history of a syphilitic family, and the ultimate fate of the children is yet to be ascertained. A rising Harley Street surgeon told me of a recent case, where a young man of good family contracted syphilis and gonorrhoea, which led to an attack of paralysis at the end of three months. It has hitherto been usual to ascribe the paralysis to the former disease, but in a case reported in the British Medical Journal in January 1909, there was a paralysis of both legs in a patient, and bacteriological examination proved that it was due to an inflammation of the spinal cord set up by the microbe of gonorrhoea. In the Morison Lecture for 1909, delivered at
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