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

  • Robson, H. N.
Date:
1911
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    much as possible without let or hindrance. Com- ment on the folly of allowing this is superfluous. It might also be feasible to have institutions, where people affected with syphilis could be treated efficiently with injections or inunctions, which would tend to prevent a good deal of the hereditary disease which afflicts our town population. The main scientific facts in connection with the prevention of syphilis, are the learned researches which have been carried out by Professors Metchnikoff and Roux, at the Pasteur Institute, Paris. These have practically proved that the micro-organism of syphilis, named the Spiro- chaeta pallida or Treponema pallidum, cannot penetrate intact healthy skin or mucous mem- brane, but effects a lodgment through a scratch, and must be deposited in the superficial layers of the dermis, or between the dermis and the epi- dermis of the skin. Here it remains apparently for about eighteen hours before entering the deeper tissues of the body, and this makes it possible to destroy the virus before it gets started on its degenerating career. Details in regard to these researches are admirably set forth in a book called “ Experimental prophylaxis of Syphilis,” by