The practice of obstetrics, designed for the use of students and practitioners of medicine . Fig. 1006.—Syphilitic Pemphigus in theNewly Born.^{Lepage.) ANTENATAL AFFECTIONS IN EXTRAUTERINE LIFE. 811 in hue, with a senile facies. The palms and soles show red areas on which bullaedevelop, moist papules are seen around the anus and mouth, the mouth is filledwith sores. The baby has difficulty in nursing, breathes through the mouth, andsnuffles continually. The cry is feeble and hoarse; there may be a persistentbronchitis. The eyes present no symptoms or there are a ciliary injection andphotophob
The practice of obstetrics, designed for the use of students and practitioners of medicine . Fig. 1006.—Syphilitic Pemphigus in theNewly Born.^{Lepage.) ANTENATAL AFFECTIONS IN EXTRAUTERINE LIFE. 811 in hue, with a senile facies. The palms and soles show red areas on which bullaedevelop, moist papules are seen around the anus and mouth, the mouth is filledwith sores. The baby has difficulty in nursing, breathes through the mouth, andsnuffles continually. The cry is feeble and hoarse; there may be a persistentbronchitis. The eyes present no symptoms or there are a ciliary injection andphotophobia. The end of one or more of the long bones shows an inflammatory yat Periosteum. Fig. 1007.—Syphilitic Osteochondritis in the Newly Born. Longitudinal 100.—{From a specimen in the Pathological Laboratory of the Cornell UniversityMedical College.) enlargement. All symptoms may be absent when a parent is known to besyphilitic. The child must then be watched for developments (Fig. 1006). Prognosis.—This is practically entirely dependent on treatment if the child isviable. Mortality in maternal descent is reduced from 60 to 3 per cent. Re-currence is unfortunately apt to occur, and in the shape of destructive lesionslater in life, but the large percentage of relapses is due to insufficient medication 812 THE PATHOLOGY OF THE NEWLY BORN. at the outset. Certain cases succumb to marasmus in spite of all that can be to the viability of a fetus, the prognosis is better as the parental syphilisincreases in age and as attention has been paid to treatment. Much can bedone in the way of prevention by careful mercurialization of the mother duringpregnanc
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