[323] Cf. the recently published admirable work of Edmond Fournier, “Recherches et Diagnostic de l’Hérédo-Syphilis Tardive” (Paris, 1907).
[324] Parrot regarded rickets as a manifestation of congenital syphilis, but this view has never found acceptance in England. Hutchinson remarks (“Syphilis,” p. 408): “The typical forms of rickets are constantly met with in conditions which do not lend the slightest support to the suggestion of syphilis.” As Cheadle remarks: “Syphilis modifies rickets; it does not create it.”—Translator.
[325] This view must be accepted with reserve. See, for instance, Osler’s “Medicine,” sixth edition, p. 271: “Is syphilis transmitted to the third generation? The general opinion is opposed to this view. Occasionally, however, cases of pronounced congenital syphilis are met with in the children of parents who are perfectly healthy, and who have not, so far as is known, had syphilis, and yet, as remarked by Coutts, who reported such a group of cases, they do not bear careful scrutiny. The existing difference of opinion is well illustrated in the account by G. Boeck (Berl. Klin. Wochenschrift, September 12, 1904) of four instances of hereditary lues in the second generation, while in the same journal Jonathan Hutchinson expresses his belief that syphilis is not transmitted to the third generation.”—Translator.
[326] As more important scientific works on syphilis I must mention that of Isidor Neumann (Vienna, 1899, second edition), containing the entire bibliography of the subject; that of Joseph Lang (Wiesbaden, 1896, second edition); but, above all, the epoch-making work of Alfred Fournier, “Traité de Syphilis” (Paris, 1898)—English translation, Fournier, “The Treatment and Prophylaxis of Syphilis” (Rebman Ltd., London, 1906).
[327] The most important scientific work on gonorrhœa is that of Ernest Finger, “Blennorrhœa of the Sexual Organs,” fifth edition (Leipzig and Vienna, 1901).
[328] Cf. M. von Zeissl, “Diagnosis and Treatment of Venereal Diseases,” third edition, pp. 171, 172 (Berlin and Vienna, 1905).
[329] Op cit., p. 172.