I am entirely satisfied that it has no beneficial effect on syphilitics and have discontinued its use entirely in my practice.
Modern Pharmacy has devised no better means of utilizing these anti-syphilitics than Elixir Iodo-Bromide of Calcium Comp.
It is evident, though, that only a relatively small proportion of the total number of syphilitics are doomed to either of these fates.
In setting a modern standard for the fitness ofsyphilitics for marriage it may be said at the outset that there is little justification for making the mere fact of a previous syphilitic infection a permanent bar in the majority of cases.
Numbers of syphilitics treated with it have been deceived by this notion into believing themselves cured.
The chancre is contagious for several weeks, and few syphilitics escape having some contagious secondary lesions the first year.
Taking the population as a whole, the percentage of syphilitics who develop this form of late involvement probably does not greatly exceed 1 per cent.
Forty male syphilitics remained till non-infective, and seventy-four ceased treatment before it was completed.
For femalesyphilitics the figures are four and eighteen.
It may seem to some that in a treatise on being well-born the subject of syphilis might be ignored as not being especially pertinent, but the supposition that no considerable percentage of syphilitics marry is not borne out by the facts.
The act has many objectionable features, one of the most striking of which is the inclusion of syphilitics under the head of persons whom it is proposed to sterilize.
It is true that the sterilization of a large number of syphilitics might have a eugenic effect, if the cured syphilitics had a permanently impaired germ-plasm--a proposition which is very doubtful.
However, this is fortunately not always the case, for many cured syphilitics have healthy children.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "syphilitics" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
