The Medical Counselor (Volume 10) (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887. Excerpt: ... feta, on which so much stress is laid by Jullien (Maladies Vener" iennes, Paris, 1879). It is the converse of that of Colles, and says the child of a syphilitic mother will be proof against the poison. Hence, in view of these apparently conflicting cases, we must lean to the stronger side and consider that an intra uterine infection is possible, nay, in most cases, probable, although not absolutely certain. Again, as to the period at which infection must take place to endanger the foetus, we should say that it must be at the latest in the eighth month. 4. Given a syphilitic father, and a mother healthy at the time of conception, what will be the effect (a) on the offspring (b) on the mother This involves some very difficult questions and is full of conflicting theories, and facts variously explained in support of them. First, we have a view set forth originally by a small school of French authors, headed by Vassal, i. e., that the father can transmit his syphilis only by first infecting the mother: hence, if the woman be healthy, the offspring must be healthy. This was taken up by Cullerier and Mireur, and has been warmly upheld by one after another until its advocates are now by no means the exception. Among these may be mentioned Sturgis, who quotes from Dullerier (2 cases), Notta (8), Charrier (4), Mireur (1), Parry (2), Langlebert (2), (Diday l. c. notes by Sturgis, pp. 19-23); these are all instances, where, in spite of apparent syphilis of the father, the mother and child remained healthy. Oewre adds to these, forty-two fathers and eighty-nine children, the mothers being healthy; Thompson, seventy-two children; Keyes seven (Keyes' Venereal Diseases, Wood's Library edition, p. 70, 1880); Wolff, eleven (Zur Frage der Paternen Infection bei Hereditare...