Chapter 2

BUILDING OUR BOYS

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A word to parents--Interest in sex hygiene--The "Social Evil"--Ten millions suffering with venereal diseases in the United States--Immorality not confined to large cities--Venereal diseases common in country places--What are the consequences of venereal disease to the boy?--Gonorrhea, or clap--Symptoms of gonorrhea in the male--Complications of gonorrhea--Syphilis, or the "pox"--How syphilis is acquired--Syphilis attacks every organ in the body--Not possible to tell when cured--The chancre--Systematic, or constitutional symptoms--Mucous patches and ulcers--Syphilis of the blood vessels and lymphatic glands--The interior organs--Brain and spinal cord--The nose, eye, ear, throat--Hair and nails--What the boy with venereal disease may cause in others--The infected wife--A girl's fate when she marries--Young wife rendered sterile--Young wife made to miscarry--Is the husband to blame--Building the man--Age of puberty--"Internal Secretion" ... PAGE 139