A disease resembling syphilis was produced by the cruel practice of transplanting teeth from sound people into the jaws of persons in the higher ranks of life, whose corresponding teeth were decayed.
The chief predisposing cause is syphilis which precedes it in from seventy to eighty-five of the cases according to various authorities.
It comes from malaria, syphilis or leukaemia, etc.
Tonic, diuretic and alterative, for syphilis and scrofula.
If syphilis exists the treatment should be begun at the beginning of pregnancy.
A general tuberculosis tendency or history of syphilis will help to make the diagnosis.
Sometimes children suffering from hereditarysyphilis have it.
Syphilis may produce a circumscribed tumor, a disease of the arteries or a general hardened infiltration of the brain.
Softening of the brain, tumors of the brain, lesions in syphilis especially, hemorrhage in the brain, blows on the head, and inflammation of the brain and its covering.
The first condition is rare and the result from injury, exposure to cold and dampness, or from syphilis or tuberculosis.
The symptoms of syphilis of the brain, belong to the third stage of the disease, and are rarely ever observed until at least one year or longer from the time of the first lesion (chancre).
Hereditary influences play a most important role, syphilis and the abuse of alcohol in the family history are particularly momentous.
Curiously enough he finds that a history of syphiliswas present in only a small proportion of his cases.
The younger the patient who has arteriosclerosis, the more probable is it that syphilis is the etiologic factor.
Syphilis is only a type of poison which produces such changes as have been described above.
Syphilis= Syphilis is one of the most important of the etiologic factors in the production of arteriosclerosis.
Recently Warthin[2] has reported a case of syphilitic sclerosis of the pulmonary artery which places the lesion in exactly the same category as that of syphilis in the systemic arteries.
In the late stages ofsyphilis the arterial lesions may be of a diffuse character.
It is only necessary to call attention to the part that alcohol, syphilisand insanity play in heredity.
He speaks of this maldevelopment as a blight and considers that syphilis in the ancestors is responsible for the condition in the offspring.
Especially does syphilisin the parents or grandparents leave its stigma in the succeeding generations in the shape of poor arterial tissue which is prone to early degeneration.
Syphilis is not an etiological factor in any of these groups.
It is furthermore prescribed in India for syphilis and leprosy and is one of the many remedies used for the bites of rabid animals.
The milky juice to which Blanco refers is used in different countries to treat various skin diseases, including the cutaneous manifestations of syphilis and leprosy; to remove warts, and as an eye wash in catarrhal conjunctivitis.
Shortt states that it is an excellent alterant in syphilis in dose of 30 centigrams, morning and evening.
The writers of antiquity recognized the plant as a powerful alterative, tonic, diuretic, stimulant and vermifuge, especially effective in secondary syphilis and in ulcerative diseases of the skin.
In syphilisand mercurial cachexia its results are less doubtful.
There are many who still believe, as did an old librarian whom I met in my effort to reach an important reference work on syphilis in a great public library.
It is part of the duty of every person who suspects syphilis in his family or who has it himself to let his physician know of it, for the sake of the help which it may give in recognizing obscure conditions in himself or his children.
Yet this does not mean that the men or women whose syphilis is discovered only after a lapse of years, must be abandoned to a hopeless fate.
The simple facts of syphilis can appeal to intelligent men and women as worthy of their most serious attention, without either stunning or disgusting them.
Infection with syphilis by such fluids as the blood, milk, or spermatic fluid uncontaminated by contact with active lesions is at least unusual.
On the other hand, the child who survives hereditary syphilis has probably an enormous resistance to the disease, which in a measure compensates for the hold which it has on him.
For syphilis we now have reliable and practical methods of prevention, which have already proved their worth.
We are seldom able by such means to reduce the size of a tumour, unless it depends on a blood-disorder, as Syphilis or Scrofula.
The compounds of Mercury, the operation of which in Syphilisis sought to be explained on these grounds, are not nearly so antiseptic as many other minerals.
They counteract inflammation in general, and the poisons of Syphilis in particular.
But as far back as the commencement of the eighteenth century the administration of Gold in syphilis was strongly recommended by Dr.
But it is not the case with Ague as it is with Syphilis and Small Pox, which diseases most persons inevitably catch who are exposed to the virus for the first time in their lives.
And if Arsenic, Alum, and common salt, acted solely by arresting fermentation, how is it that they have no control over the supposed fermentations of Syphilis and other diseases?
The Terchloride of Gold may be used inSyphilis in the same way as the Bichloride of Mercury; but it is much more seldom employed.
The former is the case in Syphilis and the Eruptive fevers.
Is it not better and more correct to say at once that Mercury is useful in checking inflammation in general, and in counteracting the poison of Syphilis in particular?
But if we only admit that there is no other medicine that will cure primary Syphilis so well as Mercury, we cannot then surely deny that its action in that disorder is of a special nature.
The preparations of Iodine exert in the blood some special actions of a Catalytic kind, by virtue of which they are enabled to counteract the morbid actions of secondarySyphilis and of Scrofula.
Some authorities--Hutchinson, for example--hold that it is possibly syphilis modified by race and climate.
A man may die from a rupture of a blood vessel in the brain during middle life as a consequence of a forgotten, supposedly cured case of syphilis many years before.
An infected mother can transmit syphilis to her child.
Surgeons frequently contract syphilis while operating on, or examining patients who have the disease.
Syphilis attacks the blood vessels and the lymphatic glands.
It is not possible to tell with absolute certainty that an individual is suffering with syphilis by any known test.
Disease of the fetus or the presence of syphilis in either of the parents will also have the same result.
If the mother has been inoculated with the virus of syphilis her existence is equally wretched; her health is ruined; her efficiency is forever mortgaged.
Illegitimate births, formerly very rare, have multiplied, syphiliseven has spread among the young.
Marsden reports a case in which, following secondary papularsyphilis and profuse spontaneous ptyalism, there was vicarious secretion of the urinary constituents from the skin.
She was never the victim of rachitis or like disease, but died of syphilis in the Colonial Hospital.
Buret traces the origin of the word syphilis from sun, with, and filia, love, the companion of love; which means in plain language that the pox is a disease transmitted more especially by venereal relations.
At the present day syphilisis universally prevalent.
It is possible that the terrible manifestations of syphilis of which we read in the older writers were in a great measure due to the enormous doses of mercury.
Buret finds evidence of traces of syphilis among the Chinese five thousand years ago, among the Egyptians at the time of the Pharaohs, among the Hebrews and Hindoos in biblic times, and among the Greeks and Romans after Christ.
Beauvais was of an amorous disposition and had had syphilis twice.
The name of syphilis was said to have been first given to it by a physician of Verona, in a poem describing the disease.
Many observers have noticed that negroes become several degrees lighter after syphilization; but no definite relation between syphilis and leukoderma has yet been demonstrated in this race.
There was no history of syphilis nor of any eruptive fever in the mother, who died on the tenth day with tetanus.
The patient always enjoyed the most perfect health, but had contracted syphilis three years before.
Syphilis has been frequently contracted in this manner, and Maury and Dulles have collected 15 cases of syphilis acquired in tattooing.
Sir William Gull and others are credited with asserting that they could detect syphilis by smell.
It is of the first importance, therefore, that this form of vaccinal inoculation of syphilis should be carefully guarded against; and that can be accomplished most certainly by using a fresh instrument for each patient.
At the present day we know that syphilis is liable to be communicated in vaccination, and that, too, without regard to visible blood in the lymph employed.
All that appears to be left after scrutiny of the facts is, that syphilis is a depressing and perverting agency, and so may join with {131} other depressing causes in preparing the way for the engendering of scrofulosis.
Meantime, certain horrible outbreaks of syphilis were reported, chiefly in Italy, that could not reasonably be imputed to the ordinary occasions of syphilitic infection.
The moot question in this regard concerning syphilismay be left for discussion elsewhere.
Constitutional syphilis is undoubtedly often conveyed by inheritance from either parent.
As regards its management, vaccinal syphilis does not differ from the ordinary form of the affection, and hence demands no other treatment than what is proper for the disease contracted in the usual way.
The contagiousness of glanders was not only admitted, but the similarity of its manner of origin and propagation to the invasion of syphilis was also stated.
The wide spread of syphilis among the natives, and a consequent cachexia, have no doubt contributed to these conditions and established a national lack of resistance to the ravages of the disease.
It is always easy to disprove such an allegation, however, for syphilis communicated in vaccination always shows itself first in the form of a chancre at the site of the vaccination.
By this time it had come to be recognized thatsyphilis was inoculable by the blood.
Therefore in any given case, unless this mode of onset can be proved, the syphilis is manifestly not of vaccinal origin.
From its detachment and quick perception of incongruity comes a rare humour which can laugh, thoughtfully or derisively, even at itself.
Nevertheless the spirit will conquer, as it has won in the long fight hitherto and will continue to win.
There is, for instance, the trick of repetition that we know so well, a whole phrase recurring, either word for word or varied very slightly, at certain intervals through the poem.
In "The Fish" we see it creating a new material world, giving substance and credibility to a strange new order of sensation: In a cool curving world he lies And ripples with dark ecstasies.
One may cite a piece like that, breaking away, in the third stanza, to a freer and more fitting rhythm, as an example of the normal development of English prosody.
Not to our lord of the hosts on his ancient throne, Drowsing the ages out in Heaven alone.
But he too, this representative of his age, knew the value of the life that he was casting away.
That happens in "Completion," a poem which is frankly mystical in theme, symbolism, and terminology.
And only to one whose quick and warm humanity held life's common things so dear could the vision shine out of such a homely scene.
There is no bias here, of mind or spirit, which would have changed the clear humanity of the poet into the philosopher or the mystic.
And the word religious in this connexion is more than usually hazardous, for almost all the connotations are against it.
Till the light faded; And they were but fools again, fools unknowing, Still scribbling, blear-eyed and stolid immortals.
The point of interest is that they are so clearly the principal elements from which the subtle and complex beauty of the later work was evolved.
Imagination here is busy with an idea that is wild, elusive, intangible: on the bare edge, in fact, of sanity and consciousness.
No other [12] disease can approximate syphilis in its hideous influence upon parenthood and the future.
The family practitioner has known for years of his cardiac patient's work and worries; it may be of his large eating, of his secret drinking, of the history of syphilis in earlier years.
Of chronic Bright's disease itself and the associated cardio-vascular changes in their prognostic aspects I need not speak, except to say that along with syphilis it is by far the most hopeless of all these affections.
But I ought to repeat here what I have already mentioned, that syphilis as a cause of cardio-vascular lesions is very often associated with other morbific influences, particularly strain and alcohol.
I ought to add that in a considerable proportion of the cases either physical strain, alcohol, tobacco or Bright's disease was associated with syphilis in the etiology, and sometimes more than one of these.
Of syphilisand the havoc that it works on heart, aorta and the vascular system generally, but particularly within the nervous system, I need not speak.
Whatever the date of the primary infection, syphilis is a standing danger to the heart and arteries in the middle-aged man and even in declining years.
Syphilis appears to account for a very considerable proportion of the more serious cases of heart disease which we meet with in older subjects--excluding of course chronic valvular disease originating remotely in endocarditis.
Has been used in syphilis with undoubted harmful results because of its inefficiency.
Also used in the treatment of infantile and hereditary syphilis and of syphilis in aged patients.
The compound fluidextract and syrup are antiquated "alteratives," at one time used especially against syphilis and scrofula.
They were patients in whom no history of syphilis could be found, yet they were suffering from typical paresis.
As a consequence of the diffusion of this knowledge men who have suffered from syphilis sometimes become supremely fatalistic as regards the development of locomotor ataxia or paresis in their cases.
Syphilis is another disease that leaves patients in a condition in which it is dangerous for them to assume the serious responsibilities of an exacting occupation and especially anything that involves excitement and worry.
We have for many years talked of hereditary syphilis as if it were absolutely sure that its transmission by inheritance took place.
In not a few cases, indeed, the symptoms of syphilis have been so transient in these patients that the true significance of them was missed until the later developments showed their real character.
People who have suffered from syphilisand who live the ordinary unemotional life of a teacher, or a merchant, or a writer, do not, as a rule, develop the postsyphilitic and parasyphilitic conditions.
It is perfectly possible, however, that syphilitic infective material may accompany the spermatozoon and so bring about the occurrence of syphilis in the offspring.
In the last twenty-five years, however, our ideas with regard to the after-effects ofsyphilis have been entirely modified by what we have learned of such diseases as locomotor ataxia, paresis and the like.
It is cases of neurasthenia that develop after secondary syphilis in persons who have been studying syphilis and its possible effects, which present the most difficult problems in diagnosis that come to the nerve specialist.
Syphilis of the nervous system sometimes simulates paresis to such an extent as to deceive the most expert, and proper antisyphilitic treatment will sometimes produce results that are little short of marvelous.
Even when no actual infection of the offspring results, syphilis favours the occurrence of a general degeneration of the progeny.
The husband had contracted syphilis before marriage and entail it upon every one of his eight children.
The only serious taint was the secondary syphiliswhich the wife had inherited from her father.
Was not the fact of his having syphilis an important ingredient in your judgment upon his case?
Palmer said at the examination that we should findsyphilis upon the deceased.
Syphilis is contagious and is transmitted by inoculation.
There is no doubt that the poison of syphilis is also most injurious to the germs and the progeny; the foetus is sometimes infected in the mother's womb, and sometimes suffers by the general debility of the maternal body.
On the Prophylaxis of Hereditary Syphilis and its Eugenic Effect).
The Prophylaxis of Hereditary Syphilisand its Eugenic Effect 36 H.
Frequency of Syphilis and other Venereal diseases, C.
Syphilis is strongly dysgenic; it causes the production of profoundly damaged children; in preventing it the physician co-operates effectively with eugenic action.
How terribly syphilis injures the body, though it is seldom directly fatal, is shown by the experiences of life insurance companies, of which examples are given in Tables C 84 and C 85.
In Germany syphilis occurs much more frequently in town than in the country; this no doubt dependent on prostitution and on a much greater degree of promiscuity of sexual intercourse in cities.
These tribes are yet totally uncontaminated by contact with European influences; consumption and syphilis are alike unknown.
Neglect of the ordinary precautions of cleanliness is responsible for the wide extension of syphilis by the use of drinking vessels, towels, etc.
Contrasted with this state of affairs, we have the severity of syphilis among unregistered women, who conceal their disease as long as they can.
The general profligacy of the country has introduced syphilis in most parts of Hindostan.
In the case of syphilis this is particularly to be regretted from the nature of the disease.
The rules for detection and suppression of syphilis in Copenhagen are very stringent.
Then, we should require her to become an inmate of the Hospital, with no additional disgrace but that arising from the fact that she had contracted syphilis by vicious habits.
The perfections of the latter arrangements are shown in the fact that, out of an army of thirty thousand men, there were less than two hundred cases of syphilis in the year 1855.
It is intended to show that syphilis is not dangerously prevalent among the general population.
Nieuwenhuis believes that inborn syphilis is the cause of the infertility of the Bahu on the Upper Mahakam.
Elshout, syphilis is not found among those of Apo Kayan.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "syphilis" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
