12 Essai sur l'Hérédité de la Syphilis, Thèse de Paris, 1867, p. 91.
M. Ricord long ago,13 and even before him Astruc and Doublet,14 had promulgated the same theory, Ricord asserting that in the tertiary stages the only effect of the disease upon the children was so to modify their organization and temperament as to expose them to developments of a scrofulous character—a view of the relation between syphilis and struma which has been so ably supported in our own day by Professor Gross.
13 Traité pratique des Maladies vénériennes Paris, 1838, p. 644.
14 Legendre, Nouvelles Recherches sur les Syphilides, 1841 (quoted by Belhomme et Martin).
M. Bazin also15 denies absolutely that tertiary syphilis is any more transmissible than it is communicable in other ways, although he fails to give his reasons for this belief.
15 Leçons sur les Syphilides, 1859, p. 35.
Hill and Cooper state16 that the transmissive power continues as long as the secondary eruptions are present, but usually ceases when the tertiary stage is reached.
16 Syphilis and Local Contagious Disorders, London, 1881, p. 62.
Van Buren and Keyes17 believe that fathers with tertiary syphilis certainly, as a rule, procreate non-syphilitic children; and in speaking of the fact that when the mother has syphilis the child is generally infected, they except the later tertiary stages.
17 Genito-urinary Disease and Syphilis, 1874, p. 521.