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Syphilis: the benefits of its medical treatment, contrasted with the consequences of leaving it untreated. Colour lithograph, 192-.

A young man, J. Kay, afflicted with a disease which has eaten away part of his face. Oil painting, ca. 1820.

A boy casting the shadow of an adult, referring to the danger of inherited venereal disease. Colour lithograph after Reginald Mount.

Nourrices et nourrissons syphilitiques / leçons professées par Alfred Fournier.

Meningitis, arteritis and choroiditis in a child the subject of congenital syphilis : gummata on cranial nerves; disease of cerebral arteries; cicatrices of liver and spleen in a case of congenital syphilis / by Thomas Barlow.

Syphilis in the innocent (syphilis insontium) : clinically and historically considered with a plan for the legal control of the disease / by L. Ducan Bulkley.

De la syphilis oculaire : note statistique et clinique / par J. Lavagna.

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Syphilis, Congenital, hereditary, and infantile

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Nourrices et nourrissons syphilitiques / leçons professées par Alfred Fournier.

A boy casting the shadow of an adult, referring to the danger of inherited venereal disease. Colour lithograph after Reginald Mount.

Meningitis, arteritis and choroiditis in a child the subject of congenital syphilis : gummata on cranial nerves; disease of cerebral arteries; cicatrices of liver and spleen in a case of congenital syphilis / by Thomas Barlow.

Syphilis in the innocent (syphilis insontium) : clinically and historically considered with a plan for the legal control of the disease / by L. Ducan Bulkley.

De la syphilis oculaire : note statistique et clinique / par J. Lavagna.