London, syphilis in, 24

Luetin test, Noguchi, 79

MALARIA, comparison of, with syphilis, 62

Marriage and abortive cure of syphilis, 127
  and five-year rule, 126
  and syphilis, 125
  and Wassermann test, 130
  annulment of, for concealment of syphilitic infection, 132
  early encouragement of, by state, parents, employers, 159
  effect of economic forces on, 158
  medical examination for syphilis before, 130
  of hereditary syphilitics, 105
  of persons with syphilis, inability of physician to prevent, 131
  of syphilitics, Hoffmann’s rule for, 124
  syphilis acquired in, 120

Massachusetts, syphilitic mental disease in, 51

Medical examination before marriage, 130
    in relation to syphilis, 130
  of prostitutes, 135, 136

Mental attitude in relation to syphilis, 141
    morbid, in syphilis, 153
  disease and hereditary syphilis, 101

Mental disease and syphilis, 50
  Hygiene, National Committee for, 166

Mercury, 62
  and salvarsan, combination of, in controlling contagiousness, 124
  comparative value of, 68
  deceptive value of, 64
  effect of, on syphilis, 63
  inability of, to control contagiousness, 123
  ineffectiveness of, by mouth, 65
  injections of, 66
  injurious effects of, 67
  inunctions (rubs), 65
  methods of administering, 64
  of using in treatment, 62
  misconception in regard to, 63

Metchnikoff and Roux, 14
  prophylaxis in syphilis, 162

Michigan, legislative measures against syphilis in, 182

Military service, universal, and spread of venereal disease, 184

Miscarriage and abortion, syphilis as cause of, 95
  repeated, 95

Misconceptions regarding cure of syphilis with salvarsan, 72
  syphilis in children, 100

Moisture, effect of, on contagiousness of syphilis, 27, 38, 110
  relation of, to infection with syphilis, 27, 38, 110

Moore, Noguchi and, 48

Moral problems in relation to syphilis, 18

Morality, sexual, in relation to syphilis, 18

Morals, syphilis and, 144

Morbidness in syphilitics, 153

Mother, knowledge of, in adopting a child, 106
  syphilitic, apparent good health of, 93
    period of greatest danger to child, 94
  treatment of syphilis in, 97

Mouth, administration of mercury by, 64
  contagious sores in, 38, 42. See also mucous patches
  effect of mercury on, 67
  late syphilis in, 47

Mucous patches, 38, 42
  cancer following, 138
  effect of salvarsan on, 74
    of tobacco in predisposing to, 43, 112
  susceptibility of prostitutes to, 136

NATIONAL Board of Health, need for, 167