syphilitics

How would it have been possible to release so many paralytics and advanced syphilitics from the hospitals when outside they first of all ran the continual risk of a relapse and secondly, particularly where there were anopheles, were a danger to their environment?

Julius Wagner-Jauregg - Nobel Lecture 1965

Yeah, I guess the movers and shakers of all things left, sorry - make that progressives, in Seattle are akin to Typhoid Mary, lepers, and syphilitics contaminating the local gene pool.

Sound Politics: Yes, It Is Your Fault, Ms. Brodeur 2006

The children of syphilitics are born deaf and cretinous.

Captain Corelli's Mandolin De Bernieres, Louis 2003

The compound at Bellevue housed contagious yellow-fever patients and syphilitics, and New-gate Prison, in Greenwich Village, was home to rapists and highway robbers.

The Dead House Linda Fairstein 2001

However, in the 1910s, as salvarsan became widely available, the public began to demand that syphilitics be reported, diagnosed, and treated.

Syphilis from 1880 to 1920: A Public Health Nightmare and the First Challenge to Medical Ethics 2000

Thus, we could not worry about a patient's cooperation when most syphilitics would not even commit to any help without notification.

Syphilis from 1880 to 1920: A Public Health Nightmare and the First Challenge to Medical Ethics 2000

Doctors rightly pointed out that any legislation that would be successful had to benefit the patient, and proposals for reporting could not be advantageous for syphilitics.

Syphilis from 1880 to 1920: A Public Health Nightmare and the First Challenge to Medical Ethics 2000

In the face of this burden, syphilitics often sought the advice of quacks, who offered baths, rubs, and hot springs as remedies for pain.

Syphilis from 1880 to 1920: A Public Health Nightmare and the First Challenge to Medical Ethics 2000

Clearly, among the reasons syphilitics felt the need to consult a quack, primary was the desire not to be discovered and branded.

Syphilis from 1880 to 1920: A Public Health Nightmare and the First Challenge to Medical Ethics 2000

Doctors generally raised no objections if two syphilitics desired to marry each other.

Syphilis from 1880 to 1920: A Public Health Nightmare and the First Challenge to Medical Ethics 2000