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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    I fancy, however, find a less subtle expla- nation of such a syphilis. If Fournier is correct in his interpretation, and syphilis by conception can manifest itself after so short a period as three weeks after impreg- nation, then in other cases the pregnancy should never be far advanced before the appearance of symptoms. Diday, however, who is chiefly responsible for the doctrine of syphilis by conception, suggests par- turition, or shortly after, as the time at which symptoms of such a syphilis are most likely to appear. There is, then, seemingly a most marked disagreement amongst the upholders of the doctrine on one of its most vital points. Diday is, however, quite clear in his teaching as to the frequency of such a syphilis. If a woman bear a syphilitic infant, he writes, '' I say she has had the complaint herself. Fournier is equally emphatic. According to him, pregnancy with a tainted foetus, however short a time it may last, implies the certain acquisition by a woman of syphilis by conception. If there are none of the outward signs of syphilis in