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Syphilis  n.  (Med.) The pox, or venereal disease; a chronic, specific, infectious disease, usually communicated by sexual intercourse or by hereditary transmission, and occurring in three stages known as primary, secondary, and tertiary syphilis. See under Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary.





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"Syphilis" Quotes from Famous Books



... to bear the sins of their husbands. This subject is one of the great taboos in modern society. Let me exhort the reader to go to any physician and get from him the statistics of gonorrhea and syphilis which he has met in his practice; let him learn of the children born blind and of wives rendered invalid for life because their husbands once sowed a crop of wild oats with the sanction of society; let him read the Report of the Committee of Fifteen in New York (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1902) ...
— A Short History of Women's Rights • Eugene A. Hecker


Words linked to "Syphilis" :   lues, Venus's curse, primary syphilis, VD, STD, sexually transmitted disease, syph, venereal infection, pox, Cupid's disease, Cupid's itch, dose, social disease, secondary syphilis, lues venerea, syphilitic


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