ution in Lemberg, 134
Paralysis, general, danger to others in, 49, 50
estimated frequency of, 51
mental symptoms in, 49
of insane, 48
syphilitic germs in brain in, 49
treatment and prevention of, 52
Paresis, 48. _See also paralysis, general_
Paris, increase of syphilis in, during war, 183
Physician, accidental infection of, with syphilis, 116
cooeperation of, in educating syphilitic, 148
importance of informing, in regard to syphilis, 105, 140
inability of, to prevent marriage of persons with syphilis, 131
Physician proper person to administer Metchnikoff prophylaxis, 163
Piles, contagious sores mistaken for, 43
Pills, ineffectiveness of, in treating syphilis, 65
mercury, 65
Pinkus' estimate of syphilis in Germany, 25
Pontopidan's estimate of number of hospitals needed for venereal
diseases, 171
Population, civil, syphilis in, 183
general, prevention of venereal disease in, during war time, 184
Potash, iodid of, 69
Pregnancy, syphilis acquired during, 94
treatment of mother during, 97
Prevalence of gonorrhea, estimates of, 26
of syphilis, estimates of, 24, 25
Prevention of locomotor ataxia and general paralysis, 52
of syphilis. _See prophylaxis_
Primary lesion. _See chancre_
stage. _See also chancre_
contagiousness of syphilis in, 109
cure of syphilis in, 85
Prohibition, national, importance of, in controlling venereal disease, 184
Prophylaxis, educational, 157
state provision for, 168
Metchnikoff, 162
utilization of, in public campaign, 177
moral, of syphilis, 156
Prophylaxis, personal, of syphilis, continence in, 161
general instruction in, 169
in army and navy, 162
physician proper person to administer, 163
unsatisfactory features of, 162
Prostitutes in Baltimore, gonorrhea in, 134
medical examination of, 135
syphilis in, 134
Prostitution, abolition or repression of, 156, 157
and syphilis, 18, 133
clandestine, risks of, 136
effects of liquor traffic on, 184
regulation of, 156
Psoriasis, confusion of, with syphilitic eruptions, 37
Public Health, syphilis as problem of, 18
Service, United States, estimates of prevalence of syphilis, 24
opinion about syphilis, 141
sentiment and reporting of syphilis to health officers, 178
Publicity, campaign for, 176
QUACKS, suppression of, 168, 174
treatment of syphilitics by, 140
Quarantine and freak legislation, 167
compulsory, for i
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