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

  • Robson, H. N.
Date:
1911
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    most advanced morbid condition characteristic of general paralysis. I interviewed the father, who told me that he had suffered from syphilis five years before marriage; he had been treated by eminent men and told that there was no fear of unfortunate results in marriage. The first child died within twenty-four hours of birth ; the second within two days; the third at ten years old de- veloped interstitial keratitis (the syphilitic affec- tion of the eyes), and later specific nerve deafness ; and the fourth was the patient.” I knew a medical student of fine physique who had syphilis whilst he was at the medical school; he settled down in practice, and had just got engaged, when general paralysis set in, and he finished his career in a dreadful condition. In another case that came to my notice, a gentleman of good family and social position sud- denly developed symptoms of this incurable afflic- tion, and the first definite sign was fouling his bed, to the great distress of his wife, who sent for a doctor. After the usual preliminaries of the com- plaint, he became more and more demented and paralytic, and finally had to be confined to bed. Lapses of his bowels and bladder became habitual, and he ceased to be an intelligent being, unable to