Practical Clinical Lessons on Syphilis and the Genito-Urinary Diseases (1883)
by Fessenden Nott Otis (9780217034661)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: LESSON IV. Syphilis by Hereditary Transmission?Differences of Opinion in Regard to the Transmission of Syphilis through the Spermatazoids?Evidence Furnished by the Cell Theory of Syphilis showing the Improbability of Infection in this Manner?The Onus of Hereditary Transmission Thrown Upon the Mother?The Previous Acquirement of Syphilis by the Mother Necessary to the Infection of the Foetus or an Embryo? Syphilis Transmitted only during the Active Period of the Disease; from One to Three Years?Reasons for this Statement?Cases Reported Claiming a Longer Period not well Substantiated?Without a Contagium there is no Syphilis?Errors Due to Acceptance of Imperfect Evidence?Illustrative Case. SYPHILIS BY HEREDITARY TRANSMISSION. Heretofore, in considering the modes of transmission of syphilis, we have accepted the probable fact that this disease is communicated by contact of a diseased with a healthy human germinal cell. We have now to consider how diseased cells in the adult, male or female, suffering with syphilis, may be brought in contact with those of the embryo, or of the foetal organism. It is claimed that the foetus, through the natural processes of growth and development, may be built up from a syphilitic seminal animalculee (spcrmatozoids) furnished by the male, in conjunction with an ovum furnished by a healthy, or even by a syphilitic, female, and may thus come to comparative maturity. Much clinical material has been adduced to prove this. On the other hand it is claimed, with equal proof of a similar character, that this is never the case, but that the syphilitic influence is always furnished by the female; presumedly communicated to the embryo or foetus through contact with the nutritive elements furnished by a mother in whose organism the degraded cells or disease...

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