Diseases of the nervous system : a text-book of neurology and psychiatry . 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 Fig. 300.—Congenital syphilis: Three miscarriages; then five children born aliveand well. Last child snuffles, Hutchinson teeth. Did well in school, then deterio
Diseases of the nervous system : a text-book of neurology and psychiatry . 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 Fig. 300.—Congenital syphilis: Three miscarriages; then five children born aliveand well. Last child snuffles, Hutchinson teeth. Did well in school, then deteriorated,noisy, maniacal; thought to be paretic. Autopsy showed generalized cerebrospinalgummatous meningitis, perivascularitis, and endarteritis. (Mott.) It would appear that the common effect of such syphilitic infectionis to reduce the resistances of the body and its powers for full develop-ment both in the general body and nervous tissues. Syphilis dimin-ishes the vital energy of the germ plasm prior to conjugation, and cancause pathological variations in nervous structures, just as it cantransmit the disease through the germ cells. The abundant studieson alcohol and its influence on the germ cell affords an analogy inunderstanding how this takes place with another type of toxemia. CONGENITAL OR HEREDITARY SYPHILIS 579 The classical formula of Fournier seems to hold—abortion, deadchild, early death, living, healthy child.
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