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Syphilitic

adjective

Of or relating to or infected with syphilis.

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"Syphilitic" Quotes from Famous Books

... that recovery is rare should not be hidden from patients and friends. Perhaps 8 per cent of all classes recover—and "recovery" may only be a long interval—but 4 per cent of these are Jacksonian, syphilitic or accident cases. Only one victim in every thirty recovers from true epilepsy; and these are very mild cases, in which the fits are infrequent, there is no mental impairment, and bromides are well borne. The earlier ...

— Epilepsy, Hysteria, and Neurasthenia • Isaac G. Briggs

... not quite true. You have never forged a bill; you have never shown your ankles to a syphilitic doctor of whom you wanted to borrow money against security in natura; you have never been so romantically silly as to expect your husband to give himself up for a crime which his wife had committed ...

— Married • August Strindberg

Words linked to "Syphilitic" : sick person, sufferer, syphilis, diseased person