Some aspects of infantile syphilis : being the Hunterian lectures delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons in 1896 / by J.A. Coutts.

  • Coutts, J. A., 1909-
Date:
1897
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Some aspects of infantile syphilis : being the Hunterian lectures delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons in 1896 / by J.A. Coutts. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University Libraries/Information Services, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University.

    13/146 (page 1)
    Mr. President and Gentlemen,— In the first place I have to acknowledge my indebtedness to the Council of this College for allowing me to occupy this present position. I feel, however, that I can best fulfil the trust imposed on me by not elaborating this acknowledgment, but by proceeding at once to the subject with which I have to deal. That syphilis can be transmitted from parents to offspring few will have the hardi- hood to deny at the present day. Long after the recognition of the symptoms of inherited syphilis in the infant, however, there would seem to have been a minority of observers who doubted this transmission. Hunter, it is well known, was induced to deny it; but in this College we may fairly claim for the great Scotch surgeon that B