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Title: Diseases of the nervous system : a text-book of neurology and psychiatry
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Jelliffe, Smith Ely, 1866-1945 White, William A. (William Alanson), 1870-1937
Subjects: Mental Disorders Nervous System Diseases
Publisher: Philadelphia : Lea & Febiger
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
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ode of transmission. This cannot beentered upon here. These studies as particularly carried out by Plant,Mott, and others have shown the enormous importance of transmittedsyphilis in the pernicious effects upon the nervous system. Linser,moreover, has shown that two-thirds of the children of syphiliticparents show a positive Wassermann reaction, although much fewershow signs of congenital syphilis. It may be recalled that Fournier stated the proportion as high as98 per cent., and that 68.5 per cent, of the children died. This does37 578 SYPHILIS OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM not include the aborted offspring. Should these be reckoned, onecould obtain a true idea of the morbidity of syphilis in the young.Hochsinger reports an interesting group of cases in this connection.In 72 families there was paternal syphilis. The mothers were notsyphilitic. Seventy mothers gave birth to 307 children—110 still-born, 166 syphilitic, and 31 healthy. The healthy were all the lastborn save in four instances.
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Fig. 299.—Congenital syphilis: Juvenile paresis, at first considered as imbecile. (Mott.) Of the children of tabetics, one obtains the same story from Mott,Mendel; and others. Either no children, many abortions, many deadchildren, few living, and no one knows as yet the fate of these. Cer-tainly one-half are doomed to disease and disorder of the nervoussystem.

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