The Third Great Plague A Discussion of Syphilis for Everyday People

+The World-wide Movement Against Venereal Disease.+--This chapter is intended to give some account of the great movements now begun to control syphilis and its fellow-diseases t...

It seems desirable, at this point, to take up the hereditary transmission of syphilis in advance of the other modes of transmitting the disease, since it is practically a proble...

One's way of looking at a thing has an immense influence on what one does about it. Obvious as this principle is in the every-day affairs of life, it becomes still more obvious...

The simplest and most direct definition of syphilis is that it is a contagious constitutional disease, due to a germ, running a prolonged course, and at one time or another in t...

There are few things about our situation with regard to syphilis that deserve more urgent attention than questions connected with the cure of the disease, and few things in whic...

The problem of the control of syphilis as a contagious disease is the least appreciated and the most important one in the whole field. It should be the key to our whole attitude...

+Means for Controlling Infectiousness.+--The usual method of controlling a very contagious disease, such as scarlet fever or measles, is to put the patient off by himself with t...

+The Discovery of Salvarsan ("606").+--Salvarsan, or "606," is a chemical compound used in the modern treatment of syphilis. It was announced to the world by Paul Ehrlich, its b...

+Scientific Methods of Treating Disease.+--In trying to treat diseases caused by germs, the physician finds himself confronted by several different problems. Certain of these di...

+The Spread of the Germs Over the Body.+--The secondary stage of syphilis, like the primary stage, is an arbitrary division whose beginning and ending can scarcely be sharply de...

+The Seriousness of Late Syphilis.+--While we recognize a group of symptoms in syphilis which we call late or tertiary, there is no definite or sharp boundary of time separating...

In taking up the consideration of the relation of syphilis to illicit sexual relations, we must again remind ourselves that we are approaching this subject, not as moralists, im...

Prophylaxis, of course, means prevention, and it has been a large part of the purpose of the present study to deal with syphilis from the standpoint of prevention and cure. The...

It seems desirable at this point, while we are trying to fix in mind the great value of recognizing syphilis in a person in order to treat it and thus prevent dangerous complica...

The simple device of talking plain, matter-of-fact English about a thing has a value that we are growing to appreciate more and more every day. It is only too easy for an underc...

Syphilis has a remarkable history,[1] about which it is worth while to say a few words. Many people think of the disease as at least as old as the Bible, and as having been one...