. Syphilis : a treatise on etiology, pathology, diagnosis, prognosis, prophylaxis, and treatment . Fig. 138.—It is possible that syphilitic changes in the thymus may interfere with growth.(Collection of Drs. Fordyce and MacKee.) Pituitary.—Lancereaux^*^ states that the pituitary may beenlarged and indurated in congenital syphilis. Simmonds^*® wasable to collect ten cases from the literature, those of Simmonds,Schmidt, Chiari, Triboulet, Dalpy and Hardwick. Also it is 446 SYPHILIS. Fig. 139.—The adrenals may be badly damaged in congenital syphilis. (Collection of Drs. Fordyce and. MacKee.) prob
. Syphilis : a treatise on etiology, pathology, diagnosis, prognosis, prophylaxis, and treatment . Fig. 138.—It is possible that syphilitic changes in the thymus may interfere with growth.(Collection of Drs. Fordyce and MacKee.) Pituitary.—Lancereaux^*^ states that the pituitary may beenlarged and indurated in congenital syphilis. Simmonds^*® wasable to collect ten cases from the literature, those of Simmonds,Schmidt, Chiari, Triboulet, Dalpy and Hardwick. Also it is 446 SYPHILIS. Fig. 139.—The adrenals may be badly damaged in congenital syphilis. (Collection of Drs. Fordyce and. MacKee.) probable that syphilitic disease of the pituitary can, eitherdirectly or through internal hydrocephalus, cause the adiposegenital dystrophy of Bartels.^*^In addition it is certain that various glands may be diseased CONGENITAL SYPHILIS 447 at the same time, so that various symptom-complexes tells me that he has seen a number of such cases in con-genital syphilitics which he is as yet unable to classify satis-factorily. Vagli° has also called attention to this fact. Cong-enital Syphilis of the Nervous System By Dr. John Lind In congenital syphilis the nervous system is involved in 13per cent of all cases, according to Rumpf. The symptoms aremost apt to appear during the period of puberty, althoughFournier reports onsets as late as the twenty-eighth year andLepine and Charcot as late as thirty-two. The most frequent yearof incidence is the twelfth. Hochsinger in
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