diseases, 170

Wet nurses, syphilis in, 100

Wife, importance of cure for, 128
infection of, by husband during pregnancy, 94
risk of infecting, 125

Williams, syphilis and mental diseases, statistics on, 50

Womb, chancre on neck of, 30

Women, child-bearing, effect of syphilis on, 95
employment of, in connection with problem of controlling venereal
diseases in war times, 184
miscarriages and abortions in, due to syphilis, 95
syphilis in lax, 133

Worry and anxiety, effect of, on syphilitic, 137

Transcriber's Note

The following variably hyphenated words have been left as in the text.

Everyday Every-day
everyday every-day
extragenital extra-genital
lifelong life-long
lifetime life-time
makeup make-up
newborn new-born

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