CONTENTS OF CHAPTER XIV
Prostitution the focus, not the cause, of venereal diseases — Philosophy of venereal diseases — Their age — Time and place of their first appearance — The origin of syphilis — Practical importance of the proof of the recent character of syphilis — The theologico-animistic theory of venereal diseases — Refutation of this theory — Blameless infection (syphilis innocentium) — The notion of specific infective disease — Scientific campaign against venereal diseases — Syphilis as a specific disease of modern times — Description of its symptoms, its course, and its termination — Consequences of syphilis to the family, to the offspring, and to the race — Congenital syphilis of the first and second generations — Racial degeneration in consequence of syphilis — The age at which infection with syphilis occurs in man and in woman — The soft chancre (chancroid) — Gonorrhœa — Change in our views regarding the dangers of gonorrhœa — Urethral gonorrhœa in the male — Acute and chronic stages — Complications — Gonorrhœa in women — The “diseases of women” — Blindness due to gonorrhœa.
Appendix: Venereal Diseases in the Homosexual.