ry, 180
control of contagiousness, 122, 124, 126
dispensary service necessary for, 171
efficient, 88
expense of, 76, 173
expert advice in, 174
hospitals in, 171
importance of salvarsan in, 89
in pay-patient clinics and hospitals, 173
necessity for cheap salvarsan in, 172
various state provisions for, 168, 169
Wassermann test in, 57
with salvarsan and mercury combined, 89
specific methods of, 60

Troops, syphilis and gonorrhea in, 182

UNITED STATES. _See America_

VEDDER'S estimate of prevalence of syphilis, 25

Venereal disease, 16
and marriage, annulment of, 132
effect of universal military service on, 184
European and American provision in regard to care of, 169, 170
importance of national prohibition in controlling, 184
proposed military measures in connection with, 183
relation of war to spread of, 182
world-wide movement against, 164
hospitals and freak legislation, 167

Vermont, reporting of syphilis in, 178

Vice Commission, Baltimore, syphilis in prostitutes, 134

Virulence of syphilis in 15th and 16th centuries, 12

Vomiting in locomotor ataxia, 49

WAR, control of venereal diseases during, 183, 184

War, relation of, to spread of venereal disease, 182

Warts, contagious syphilitic, 42

Washing, effect of, on transmission of syphilis by dishes, 114

Wassermann test, 54
as evidence of fitness to marry, 130
difficulties of, 55
effect of mercury on, 67
of treatment on, 58
factor of error in, 56
importance of expert performance of, 174
to pregnant mother, 97
in connection with adoption of children, 106
in determining cure of syphilis, 58, 90
in family where one member is syphilitic, 128
in freak legislation, 167
in late hereditary syphilis, 106
in syphilitic mothers, 93
negative, development of infectious sores in spite of, 123
meaning of, 56
on spinal fluid, 59
persistently positive, 58
positive, meaning of, 56
practical details concerning, 59
provocative, 130
use of, in recognizing early syphilis, 33

Weight, loss of, in secondary recurrences, 43
in secondary syphilis, 36

Welander homes for hereditary syphilis, 108

West Australia, action of, against drug stores prescribing for
syphilis, 176
attitude of, on personal Metchnikoff prophylaxis, 177
compulsory treatment of syphilis in, 180
state provision of, for treatment of venereal