Identifier: syphilis00coop (find matches)
Title: Syphilis
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Cooper, Alfred, Sir, 1846-1908 Cotterell, Edward, 1857-1898
Subjects: Syphilis Syphilis
Publisher: Philadelphia : P. Blakiston
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School

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The childs system is, so to speak,saturated with the poison, and its condition resemblesthat of an adult in the tertiary stage. There istherefore a considerable difference in limine betweenthe hereditary and the acquired forms. The time atwhich the childs symptoms are manifested is a veryimportant element in the question of the prognosis.If the symptoms are unmistakably present at birth,or appear very soon afterwards, a fatal terminationmay be expected. On the other hand, if the sym-ptoms are latent for two, three, or more weeks, theprospect is much more favourable, and, as a generalrule, it improves in a degree proportionate to thelength of the interval. The prognosis is of courseinfluenced by the condition of the child and its j)ros-pects as regards careful nursing, etc. When the EXPLANATION OF PLATE XX. Case, of hereditary syphilis, showing destruction of nose and de-fillrtiity produced by exostoses of bones of arm and forearm,(From a photograj^h lent by Dr. Colcott Fox.) Plate 20.
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HEREDITAEY SYPHILIS. 401 appearance of the symptoms is delayed until tliesecond or third month, the disease is generally of amild type. Severe affections of the mouth, nose, andthroat, pustular eruptions, and evident disease of in-ternal organs—e.g. the lungs and liver—are the mostformidable sources of danger. When the mouth andthroat are fissured and ulcerated, it may become im-possible to feed the child, and exhaustion rapidlyfollows. Diarrhoea and vomiting often usher in thefatal termination. When recovery takes place fromthe early symptoms, relapses sometimes occur, thehereditary taint showing itself in malformations ofthe teeth, keratitis, disease of the bones of the palateand nose, etc. The question of latency has beenalready considered (see page 366); the relationsbetween syphilis and other disorders will be discussedin another chapter. Whether hereditary syphilisprotects the subject of it from the full effects of theacquired form has not as yet been decided. Treatment.—M

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