Surgery : its theory and practice / by William Johnson Walsham.

  • William Walsham
Date:
1890
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Credit: Surgery : its theory and practice / by William Johnson Walsham. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    an infant with inlieiitod sj'pliilis to allect its own mother (spoken of as Culle-s Iulu) was formerly thought to he a proof that the mother had suffered from syphilis whilst the foatus Avas in utero. In some instances this has no doubt been the case, lint in other mstauces she has shown no signs of syphilis during gestation, and there has been reliable evidence that she hadnothad thedisease previously. The explanation offered by the followers of M. Pasteui- is that the syphilis of the i'cotus has protected the mother. Fii!. :j.—Syphilitic teetli (aftur flutcliiusoD). Fig. G.—^[ereuriul tcetii (after Hutehiusou). In the later stages of congenital syphiHs. as in those of the acquired form, iodide of potassium is indicated, and may fretxnently be advantageously combined with small doses of mercury, where the later lesions, as is too often the ca,se, ])rove intractable. Lastly, should syphilis be suspected in either of the parents during the i)criod of gestation, mercury should be admiuistereil to the mother; whilst a caiiticjn should be givt'U to fioth parents after the birth of a syphilitic infant for the sake of any future oft'- spring. H.lOiEOl'IMLIA. ILl^MonriLlA, or tlm hremorrhagic diathesis, is a con- dition in which bleeding is prone to occur spontaneously or on the slightest ])r(ivocati()n, and is very dillicult to arrest. The ca,usi'is uuknowii. Tbe all'ection, however, ap])ears to be bcivditiirv ; it often occurs in members of the same family, and nJarly always in thojnales, although it is almost invariablv transmitted tlinmgli the female line. The ]i;i1]i(ii()gv n'f tlie disease is obscure, and except that the arteries 'llave been fouud thin, and the left
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