Syphilis of the Innocent

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 Excerpt: ... patients to the clinic for examination. l Solomon, H. C. and M. H., The Effects of Syphilis on the Families of Syphilitics Seen in the Late Stages, Social Hygiene, vol. vi, no. 4, Oct., 1920. Families with no Children.--Table 18 is concerned with the percentage of families in which no living children were born. The families in which no successful pregnancies occurred may be divided into families which were entirely sterile, and those in which pregnancies occurred which never came to successful fruition. The tables dealing with the total 555 families may be considered as giving the correct percentage for this study, which is based upon history. It was found that 29.7 per cent of the families did not give birth to living children, 23 per cent being entirely sterile, and 6.7 per cent having unsuccessful pregnancies. It must be borne in mind that we are not here dealing with the question of accidents to pregnancies as such, but merely with the number of childless families. Not all of the sterile or childless marriages can be definitely traced to syphilis. Gonorrhea, pelvic deformities, mismating, and the like, may account for much of it. However, if we compare this figure of 29.7 per cent There are a few families in which there was neither living spouse nor child, nancies is discussed (Table 18) but not in the Wassermann reaction percentages t These percentages were taken on the total families although there were a few there was no living spouse to examine. The assumption was that the spouse was These percentages were taken on families with pregnancies. These are included in the total number of families when the subject of pregnable 17). families in which the children were non-syphilitic as far as known but in which non-syphilitic. Table 22. Familial Syphiliti...