. Woman : her sex and love life. withoutsaying. The childs genitals should be frequentlyinspected by the mother, and scrupulous cleanlinessby frequent bathing, sponging with warm solutionsand powdering, should be maintained. The toiletseats in school should receive special wooden seat is a menace because it often har-bors gonorrheal pus from either the female or malegenitals, while the only proper seat is one of theso-called U-shaped style, that is, one in which thefront is entirely open, like the letter U. Chapter Twenty-fiveSYPHILIS Syphilis Due to Germ—Syphilis a Constitutiona
. Woman : her sex and love life. withoutsaying. The childs genitals should be frequentlyinspected by the mother, and scrupulous cleanlinessby frequent bathing, sponging with warm solutionsand powdering, should be maintained. The toiletseats in school should receive special wooden seat is a menace because it often har-bors gonorrheal pus from either the female or malegenitals, while the only proper seat is one of theso-called U-shaped style, that is, one in which thefront is entirely open, like the letter U. Chapter Twenty-fiveSYPHILIS Syphilis Due to Germ—Syphilis a Constitutional Disease—Primary Lesion—Incubation Period—Roseola—PrimaryStage — Secondary Stage— Mucous Patches — TertiaryStage—Gumma—Hereditary Nature of Syphilis—MilderCourse in Women Than in Men—Obscure Symptoms inSyphilis—Necessity for Examination by Physician—Loco-motor Ataxia—Softening of the Brain—Chancroids. Syphilis is a disease caused by a germ calledspirochetal the full name is spirocheta pallida—a. Spibocheta Pallida, or Treponema Pallidum, the Germ ofSyphilis as Seen under the Microscope. pale, spiral-shaped germ. Though the disease hasbeen ravaging Europe and America for centuries, 168 SYPHILIS 109 the germ of it has been discovered only a few yearsago, namely, in 1905, and, like the gonococcus, alsoby a German scientist, Fritz Scliaudinn. Syphilis isa constitutional disease. In ten days to three weeksafter a person has contracted syphilis, he (or she)develops a sore (at the spot where the germs got in).This sore is called chancre or primary lesion. Butwhen this sore makes its appearance the spirochetaeand the poison which they elaborate are already cir-culating in the blood, all over the system. The dis-ease is already systemic, or constitutional, and thechancre is the local expression of a constitutionaldisease. Cutting out the chancre will not cure thedisease, because, as stated, the germs are already inthe system. The time between the contr
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