Transactions September 5th, 1887 Volume 5 (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: ...heterodox. I can have no communion with him when he tilks about Hutehinsonian teeth as if they can be the outcome of anything but syphilis. This fact has been impressed upon me by Mr. Jonathan Hutchinson, that syphilitic teeth are syphilitic teeth, and that they are nothing else, and that no interference with second dentition, no struma, no scrofula, nothing can produce these teeth but congenital syphilis. This merely in passing. Hutchinson goes so far as to say that there are many other teeth that have been classed as his which are not his. In regard to what Dr. Gundry says, I have to agree with him very strongly in what he says of the moral perversion found in children of syphilitic ancestors. Dr. Maudsley has written largely upon the tyranny of our organization, and the tyranny of our organization is nowhere more marked than in our moral goodness or badness. One has seen syphilitic children who have shown moral perversion, and how could it be otherwise? The fathers and mothers are dissolute, and it is from this cause that we have the moral perversion. I cannot accept the view that it comes from the syphilis. Dr. Down's case was that of a person whose father was an abandoned man and the mother nearly as bad. The patient was the only child, and had the syphilitic disease of both parents. Syphilitic corneitis was present and with it the most unbridled lust that it was possible to have. II. INSANITY ASSOCIATED WITH ACUTE SYPHILIS. Dr. Savage.--I have here to say that the cases of insanity in which acute syphilis is the chief cause seem to me to be very rare. I have to communicate one case, kindly contributed by Dr.Wigglesworth, of thellainhill Asylum, Lancashire. In this case acute syphilis was followed by insanity, and in the end the patient died. The remar...