Excerpt from Syphilology and Venereal Disease On controversial points I have ventured to give my own opinions. I have also endeavoured to emphasize the impor tance of syphilis and gonorrhoea as etiological factors in disease. When we consider that they are probably the oldest diseases which afflicted mankind; that they are both extremely contagious; that syphilis is par excellence the heredi tary disease, and may be transmitted to the third generation that gonorrhoea is the cause of a large proportion of diseases of women, it appears difficult to overestimate their importance. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.