Bath-tubs not means of transmitting syphilis, 114

Berlin, syphilis in clerks and merchants of, 25

Birth, premature, 95

Blaschko and German sexual disease program, 177, 180
  estimate of syphilis in Berlin, 25

Blindness in hereditary syphilis, 104

Blood, Spirochaeta pallida in, during secondary stage of syphilis, 35
  test for syphilis, 54. See also Wassermann test
  vessels, late syphilis in, 46

Board of Health, activities of, against syphilis, 165
  national, need for, 167

Body, invasion of, by germs in secondary stage of syphilis, 35

Bones in hereditary syphilis, 102
  late syphilis (gumma) in, 46
  Spirochaeta pallida in, 39
  supposed effect of mercury on, 63

Bordet and Wassermann, blood test for syphilis, 14

Brain, late syphilis of, 48
  softening of, 48
Brawl chancre, 116

Breasts, contagious patches on, 38

Brooklyn Hospital Dispensary, 171
  health exhibit by, 175

CABOT, Hugh, comment on reporting syphilis, 179

Cancer following smoker’s patch, 138

Chafe, chancre resembling, 30
  relation of, to infection with syphilis, 28

Chancre, 29
  and cold sores, 30
  appearance of, 30
  brawl, 116
  combined with chancroid, 30
  concealment of, by gonorrhea, 30
  contagiousness of, 109
  contracted during engagement, 117
  cure of syphilis in stage of, 85
  developed from kissing game, 117
  diagnosis of, prevented by improper treatment, 32
  ease with which overlooked, 30
  enlargement of glands near, 33
  extra-genital, from lax relations, 134
  importance of early recognition of, 31, 34
  in women, 30
  location of, 28
  of the lip, 117, 119
  on knuckle (brawl chancre), 116
  painlessness of, 30
  soft, 30. See also chancroid
  tertiary symptoms following, 45
  urethral, in men, 30
  variations in, 30

Chancroid, 16
  and syphilitic infection, 30
  confusion of, with syphilitic chancre, 31

Child, death of, in syphilitic miscarriages or abortion, 95
  early signs of hereditary syphilis in, 99
  effect of syphilitic eye trouble on development of, 103
  healthy, born of syphilitic mother, 94
  infection of wet nurse by syphilitic, 100
  necessity of teaching sexual self-control to, 160
  older, effect of hereditary syphilis on, 102
  transmission of syphilis from mother to, 92
  treatment of syphilis in, before birth, 97
  unborn, effect of syphilis on, 98

Child-bearing, effect of syphilis on, 95

Children, adopted, syphilis in, 106
  syphilitic, mental condition of, 101

Clap, 16.
  See also gonorrhea

Clinics for pay patients to secure better treatment, 173
  inadequate, for venereal disease, 170
  night, necessity for, 171