A treatise on syphilis in new-born children and infants at the breast / by P. Diday ; translated by G. Whitley.

  • Diday, P. (Paul), 1812-1894.
Date:
1859
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Credit: A treatise on syphilis in new-born children and infants at the breast / by P. Diday ; translated by G. Whitley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CHAPTEll II. DEriNITION.—DIVISION. The generality of special writers employ iiidilferently, in the designation of this disease^ the terms hereditary syphilis, congenital syphilis, syphilis by generation, infantine syphilis, and syphilis of new-born children. These denominations, however, are not synonymous; some express a genus, others a species, others again, according to certain writers, only a simple variety. We must be careful, therefore, not to apply them indiscriminately to the various setiological modifications of an affection which presents, in this par- ticular respect, so much diversity. An infant may contain syphilis ; firstly, during iiitra-uterine life, through the formative or nutritive elements derived from its parents; secondly, during or after birth, by the absorption of the virus from some source or other. Hence we have two classes of • phenomena which we shall study successively, under the designations of congenital and acquired sy|:)hilis. Section A* CONGENITAL SYPHILIS. To determine how much is real in the different infiueiices to which this kind of transmission of syphilis has been attributed, v^e }uusttake the problem to jheces. VYe shall examine them one after the other, as well in reference to their derivation from each of the two parents, as to their being exercised before or after the moment of fecundation. I.—Influence of the Father^ The father alone being syphilitic, can he communicate the disease to the child? If this question has been put doubtfully; if many