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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    enable him to find any frequent affection of the pharynx in such cases. What has been said as to the pharynx applies equally to the mouth in very young infants. Any shallow ulcerations of the mouth found in them are generally due to aphthous con- ditions, which are common enough in babies with no suspicion of syphilis. Henoch agrees with this, and gives useful warning against mistaking ulcers along the middle line of the palate in young infants for specific manifestations. Although in early infancy the mouth and throat are free, yet in infants some months old, whether with a relapse or not, the tonsils, fauces, palate, and buccal membranes may be the sites of a few scattered ulcers un- mistakably specific in character. These affections of the mouth only occur in a minority of cases, and the infants in whom they appear are seldom less than four months old, and generally some months older than this. Fissuring of the lips, too, is a later symptom than some of the text- books allege. The infrequency of sores about the mouth and their late appearance