110
  course of, summary, 52
  cure of, 90
  danger from irresponsible persons infected with, 150
  deaths from, 48
  definition of, 21
  diminishing virulence of, 12
  early, methods of recognizing, 32
  educational prophylaxis of, 157
  epidemic of, in sixteenth century, 11
  eruption in secondary stage, 36
  essentials of campaign against, 168
  false silence in regard to, 15
  five-year rule regarding contagiousness, 124, 126, 129
  freak legislation in regard to, 166
  guilt or innocence in transmission, 118
  harm done by stigma attaching to, 143
  hereditary, 92
    accident and injury in, 105
    contagiousness of, 100, 105
    destructive changes in, 101, 102
    early signs of, in children, 99, 100
    late signs of, 101
    mental symptoms in, 101
    of eye, 103
    treatment of, 107
  history of, 11
  importance of prohibition in controlling, 184
  important advances in knowledge of, 17
  in adopted children, 106
  in British working men, 24
  in families, detection of, by Wassermann test, 128
  in father or mother of family, 92, 93, 126
  in men who have only had gonorrhea, 31
  in prostitutes, 134
  in United States, estimates of, 26
  in wet nurses, 100, 101
  inability of physician to prevent marriage of persons with, 131
  incomplete cure of, 82
  influence of, on progress of mediaeval medicine, 13
  innocent, in fiancee, 129
    suffering of, caused by, 19
  late, attributable to insufficient salvarsan treatment, 73
    curability of, 86
    destructive effect of, 47
    in nervous system, 48
    most serious forms of, 47
    seriousness of, 45
    tissue changes in (gumma), 46
  measure to prevent spread of, from army to general population, 183
  medical examination for, as means of detecting contagiousness, 123
    of prostitutes for, 135
  mental attitudes in relation to, 141
  Metchnikoff prophylaxis of, 162
  mild, dangers of, 41
    relation to complications in nervous system, 45
  mistaken conceptions of, 13
  moral prophylaxis of, 156
  morbid fear of, 154
  non-genital, 28
    or extra-genital, 119
  obstacles to control of contagiousness of, 123
    to social control of, 141
  passive, transmission of, by prostitutes, 135
  personal hygiene of, 136
  prevalence of, 23
    in lax individuals, 133
  prevention of, by sexual self-control, 159
  public attitude toward, 141
  quacks and self-treatment in, 140
  radical or complete cure, 80
  reinfection with, 139
  relation of mouth and tongue cancers to, 138
  reporting of, to health officer, 178
  risk of acquiring, from prostitutes, 136
    of infecting wife with, 125
  secondary, cure of, 86
    time required for cure of, 86
  sexual transmission of, 117
  stages of, 26