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
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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.

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    can be attempted. When writers such as Fournier, who believe in the doctrine of syphilis by conception, give statistics as to the paternal influence, they simply refer, I take it, to cases where there is certain proof of the disease in the father and where there is an entire absence of the ordinary signs of it in the mother. Fournier's statistics as to the paternal in- fluence, subject to the reservation I have stated, are as follows. From notes of 1127 pregnancies in his private practice where the father alone was manifestly syphilitic, he places the mortality amongst infected children at 28 per cent. In his hospital practice, from notes collected by Mademoiselle Krikus, he places the mor- tality where the father alone was syphilitic at as high a figure as 48 per cent., an increase fully accounted for by the differ- ence of surroundings of the parents in private and hospital practices. Kassowitz, who denies the doctrine of syphilis by conception, gives the following figures: out of 105 pregnancies where the father was syphilitic, there were 26 abortions, 21