Excerpt from The Journal of Cutaneous Diseases Including Syphilis, 1917, Vol. 35 The significance of syphilis to the individual, the family and the community is now so generally recognized and has been so emphasized during the past decade that this phase of the subject scarcely needs to be enlarged on. It is difficult to obtain accurate statistics of the prev alence of syphilis among the general population; it depends more or less on statistics furnished by the Army or Navy, or by investigations carried on in various penal or other state institutions. At Auburn, Boudreau found that nearly 19 per cent. Of the males and 34 per cent. Of the females gave a positive Wassermann reaction. Seven' and one half per cent. Of all patients admitted were potential sufferers from paresis, or some other form of cerebrospinal syphilis. It has been further stated that 15 per cent. Of insane in institutions in New York state have paresis; that there are about cases in such institutions and that about 800 die each year from this disease. 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.