Cold sores and chancres, 30

College students, syphilis in, 25

Commission, Baltimore Vice, 134
  Sydenham Royal, 164

Complications, serious, of syphilis, 45

Compulsory treatment, state provision for, 169

Conception, influence of syphilis on, 95
  treatment of syphilis occurring in mother after, 97

Coney Island Health Exhibit, 175

Contagiousness of moist sores in syphilis, 27, 38, 110
  of secondary relapses in syphilis, 42
  syphilitic sores, 38
  of syphilis, 109. See also infectiousness, infection, and transmission
    and medical examination of prostitutes, 135
    control of, by salvarsan, 73, 74, 122
    detection of, by examination of patient, 123
    disappearance of, in late syphilis, 110
    duration of, in late syphilis, 112
      under treatment, 123
    effect of incomplete cure on, 83
      of local irritation on, 43
      of mercury on, 64
      of moisture on, 27, 38, 110
      of time on, 111
      of tobacco on, 138
    estimate of risk for wife, 125
    factors tending to increase, 112
    five-year rule in relation to, 124
    hereditary, 100, 105
    ignorance of, in women, 135
    impracticability of quarantine in control of, 121
    in wet nurses, 101
    inability of mercury to control, 123
    obstacles to control by treatment, 123

Continence as personal prophylaxis, 161
  economic forces opposing, 157

Copenhagen, dispensaries for treatment in, 171

Cost, economic, of mental disease due to syphilis, 51
  of living, effect of, on marriage and sexual life, 158
  of treatment, effect of, 84, 149

Cups, drinking, transmission of syphilis by, 113

Curability of syphilis, critical estimate of, 90

Cure, importance of, for the wife, 128
  incomplete or symptomatic, danger of, 82
  of early syphilis, abortive, 27, 34, 86, 127
  of hereditary syphilis, 107
  of syphilis, 124, 126, 129. See also five-year rule
    abortive, salvarsan in, 73, 79, 89
    complete, responsibility of the physician in regard to, 84
    effect of cost on, 84, 149
      stage of disease on, 85
    importance of, 90
    in early stage, 27, 86
    in primary stage, 85. See also cure of syphilis, abortive
    in secondary stage, 86, 88
    methods of determining, 90
    obstacles to, 80
    radical or complete, 80
    Wassermann test in, 58
  symptomatic, in late syphilis, 87
  time required for, 87

DARK-field examination, use of, in recognizing contagious recurrences, 111
  germ of syphilis in, 22
  importance of using, 22
  use of, in recognizing early syphilis, 33

Deafness and loss of speech due to hereditary syphilis, 104

Deaths due to hereditary syphilis, 98, 99
  due to late syphilis, 48