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Syphilis  n.  (Med.) The pox, or venereal disease; a chronic, specific, infectious disease, usually communicated by sexual intercourse or by hereditary transmission, and occurring in three stages known as primary, secondary, and tertiary syphilis. See under Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary.






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... favorable conditions for the growth and spread of these diseases. Its bigotry is again most strikingly demonstrated by the senseless attitude in regard to the great discovery of Prof. Ehrlich, hypocrisy veiling the important cure for syphilis with vague allusions to a remedy for ...
— Anarchism and Other Essays • Emma Goldman

... children, often by different men, in the city, unless protected, enters prostitution. The city prostitute, because of the sterilizing effects of venereal diseases, is less likely to become the mother of children, but, on the other hand, she scatters about syphilis, which has so much to do with causing mental abnormalities. It may be a matter of opinion which of the two social evils, illegitimacy in the country or prostitution in the city, has the larger influence upon the spread of mental abnormalities, but there can be no ...
— Rural Problems of Today • Ernest R. Groves

... brother-in-law's, but I got there too late, the poor boy had taken a shot-gun to his room, and put the muzzle into his mouth, and set off the trigger with his foot. In the letter he told me what was the matter—he had got into trouble with a woman of the town, and had caught syphilis. He had gone away and tried to get cured, but had fallen into the hands of a quack, who had taken all his money and left his health worse than ever, so in despair and shame the poor boy ...
— Sylvia's Marriage • Upton Sinclair

... Non-mercurial Treatment of Syphilis. 24, Cancer treated by Antiphlogistics. 25, Essential Oil of Male Fern as a remedy in Cases of Taenia. 26, Tincture of Bastard Saffron for the expulsion of Taenia. 27, Oil of Turpentine in Taenia. 28, Action of the Oil of the Euphorbia Lathyris. ...
— North American Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3, July, 1826 • Various

... which have been proved to be due to protozoa are malaria, amoebic dysentery, and syphilis; while among the much larger number which are due to bacteria, bacilli, or other vegetable parasites, are cholera, typhoid fever, the plague, pneumonia, diphtheria, tuberculosis, ...
— Q. E. D., or New Light on the Doctrine of Creation • George McCready Price

... the skin. After some inquiries I found, from Fortin's own wife, that similar drugs had been sometimes seen in the hands of Lilihae, who had bought them of a druggist in Honolulu for the treatment of syphilis. The riddle was at once completely solved. A few days passed, and Lilihae killed himself by poison, convinced that all his attempts could not kill me. In his native superstition, he was satisfied that the gods would not forgive ...
— Northern California, Oregon, and the Sandwich Islands • Charles Nordhoff

... period. Unfortunately most women's idea of regulating promiscuous intercourse is to have none of it. This is impossible in the present stage of moral evolution, but it will become increasingly possible as we succeed in extirpating the venereal diseases, particularly syphilis. Syphilis is the one great cause of immorality, because persons born with a syphilitic taint (and what family is entirely free from this hereditary disease?) are apt to be mentally and morally deficient; hence, tend to indulge in anti-social ...
— Safe Marriage - A Return to Sanity • Ettie A. Rout

... Bertrand, the Commissaire of the District, and Dr. Rhodain, the medical officer for Ubangi. The latter states that he has only seen two cases of sleeping sickness in several years' residence and that there is no syphilis, small-pox or tuberculosis in the neighbourhood. The people work well here,—the villagers collecting the usual kilogramme per month, while the workers in the plantations clear the forest and plant more rubber for future ...
— A Journal of a Tour in the Congo Free State • Marcus Dorman

... race. It is the young men who on account of comparatively poor physical constitutions are excused from military service, who marry the first, while the healthier individuals are condemned to a transitory sterility, and in the great cities run the risk of contagion from syphilis which ...
— Socialism and Modern Science (Darwin, Spencer, Marx) • Enrico Ferri

... and the black belts the whites at the South increased more swiftly than the blacks. Certain of what Malthus called the "positive checks" upon population—viz., diseases, mainly syphilis, typhoid, and consumption—decimated the negroes everywhere. Colored population drifted from the country to cities, which probably accounted for the fact that in 1890 more negroes lived in the North than ever before. In the South itself, on the other hand, the movement of ...
— History of the United States, Volume 5 • E. Benjamin Andrews

... destroyed and a change or degeneration called "cheesy" is produced, leading to the production of a tubercle—a rod-like bacillus is invariably found, the well-known and unfortunately too common tubercle bacillus. In syphilis—another special variety of inflammation—a specific micro-organism is also surely present, but of this microbe science has not as yet ...
— Intestinal Ills • Alcinous Burton Jamison



Words linked to "Syphilis" :   tertiary syphilis, social disease, Cupid's itch, VD, pox, Cupid's disease, syph, Venus's curse, lues, venereal disease, dose



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