Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A saturation of the system with syphilis by means of repeated inoculations: a mode of treatment suggested not only for the cure of syphilis, but also as rendering the body insusceptible to future attacks. Also spelled
syphilisation .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.) Inoculation with the syphilitic virus, especially when employed as a preventive measure, like vaccination.
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- noun medicine
inoculation with thesyphilitic virus , especially when employed as apreventive measure
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Examples
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What was done to combat the resulting syphilization ofour people?
Mein Kampf Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945 1925
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The residue of 22 cases include, we are confident, no instance of exudative disease of the syphilitic group, though general syphilization cannot safely be ruled out in all cases.
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It is, as Krafft-Ebing was accustomed to say, syphilization and civilization working together which produce general paralysis, perhaps in many cases, there is reason for thinking, on a nervous soil that is hereditarily degenerated to some extent; this is shown by the abnormal prevalence of congenital stigmata of degeneration found in general paralytics by Näcke and others.
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society Havelock Ellis 1899
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Many observers have noticed that negroes become several degrees lighter after syphilization; but no definite relation between syphilis and leukoderma has yet been demonstrated in this race.
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Many observers have noticed that negroes become several degrees lighter after syphilization; but no definite relation between syphilis and leukoderma has yet been demonstrated in this race.
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Review_, we find, in a review of the control of prostitution, an estimate in regard to the syphilization of a nation.
History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance Peter Charles Remondino 1886
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The effect of syphilization in inducing a scrofulous taint and the appearance of a rapidly-marching consumption among savage races has been well observed among the Indians in the southwestern parts of the United
History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance Peter Charles Remondino 1886
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There can be but little doubt that to this particular and well-marked less syphilization the Hebrew race owes much of its exemption from many other diseases and its greater resistance to ordinary ailments and epidemic diseases.
History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance Peter Charles Remondino 1886
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Nazis condenmed ’syphilization,’ celebrated barbarism, and wish to bring about the end of civilization.
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » The Anti-Industrial Revolution 2010
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J. Royes Bell also observes the less syphilization among circumcised races. [
History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance Peter Charles Remondino 1886
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