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local disease, the worst result of
which is a virulent Bubo.
of
the former is the Precursor a Protean series of diseases, of which the well known secondary and tertiary forms are
far from the limits. The advance of Pathology is yearly making
manifest the dependence of Aneurism, Paralysis, in men of Army ages,
Diseases of the Glandular Systems, Phthisis, and in short
organic lesions of almost every
organ
and
tissue of the Body,
often otherwise untainted,
and still more
with scrofulous
or other pre-existing
taint, or antecedent Syphilis, which
often defies eradication for years,
for a life time.
(When it is further borne in mind, that the poison of Syphilis is transmissible from
one to
another, not alone by its primary
form,
but by
its secondary forms also, and
that it is, in all its duration
possible
to be a Source
of taint from parent
to Child, its existence and increasing
spread is a rational ground
for
public alarm, and policy, with
a view to minimize
the evil
which threatens
again
as in the
16th Centuries to enfeeble
Armies, to havoc society,
and to
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long taught,
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