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Excerpt from The New England Medical Gazette, 1918, Vol. 53 Syphilis, in the light of modern investigation, can not be considered a prominent cause of interruption of pregnancy prior to the sixth month; but syphilitic babies in their first ten days of life show a mortality four times as great as those with nega tive reaction. Moreover, such syphilitic mothers, in addition to being exceedingly prone to sepsis, by reason of their general debilitated condition, are frequently sufferers from psychic shocks attendant upon repeated miscarriages, still births, and invalid children. A still greater burden rests upon the child. Hochsinger finds, in a series of 516 luetic infants, 253 or 46 per cent. Died m utero or during the first year of life. Of the remaining 263, 55 died before the age of four years; and of the remaining 208 only 51 remained healthy throughout their entire childhood. Syphilis still further takes its toll among children in mental defects, syphilitic keratitis, deafness, deformities of teeth and bones, criminality, and other conditions too numerous to mention. Dangers to the public through eating and drinking utensils, clothing, and direct contact with others, especially phy sicians and nurses, are at the present time scarcely appreciated at their full and fair value. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.