Symptoms change through progressive stages

Usage examples of syphilis.

It occurred to him belatedly that syphilis was perhaps not a topic suitable to discuss with a lady.

Louisiana ranked near the top in the nation in rates of syphilis, gonorrhea, and chlamydia, the governor instituted an abstinence program.

The name of syphilis was said to have been first given to it by a physician of Verona, in a poem describing the disease.

With those whose systems are enfeebled by want, intemperance, exposures or disease, as scrofula or syphilis, the first symptoms usually observed will be a frequent desire to urinate, occasional attacks of diarrhea, flatulency, dropsical swelling of the face, especially under the eyes, and afterwards of the extremities, paleness and increasing debility.

Thus, in her first three issues, the Oracular Vulva delivered disquisitions on the erotic art of the Japanese painter Hiroshi Yamamoto, the epidemiology of syphilis, and the sex life of St.

At the time, guaiac, a bush that grows in the West Indies, was commonly used to treat syphilis.

Your new lover has syphilis, gonorrhoea, and four other venereal diseases for which the queen has no English names.

Every woman or girl who has so far come to Joy Hall from Chatterford has had, at one stage or another, the same strain of syphilis that maddened Peavis Green.

Somehow he has avoided the virulent syphilis that once infected most of the Chatterford staff.

We had lobar pneumonia, meningococcal meningitis, streptococcal infections, diphtheria, endocarditis, enteric fevers, various septicemias, syphilis, and, always, everywhere, tuberculosis.

The fierce and sentimental music and the ignorant colors, the prettiness and the disease under the fake-gold light, the tuberculosis and syphilis, the fires showing through the branches like illuminated brains, the glamorous nomas of eye and mouth, the childishness and all the valueless trash.

These wards were filled with derelicts: old women with dementia, impecunious veterans down on their luck, noseless men with tertiary syphilis and the like.

Marsden reports a case in which, following secondary papular syphilis and profuse spontaneous ptyalism, there was vicarious secretion of the urinary constituents from the skin.

She was never the victim of rachitis or like disease, but died of syphilis in the Colonial Hospital.

This theory has it that the prince, never known as the brightest light or most upstanding exemplar of the Hanover line, suffered from effects of syphilis on the brain as a result of his debauching and that he used to slum in Whitechapel and pick up lowly women.