Stage of syphilis, relation of, to curability, 82 secondary, of syphilis, 35. _See also secondary stage; secondary syphilis; contagiousness; transmission; and Spirochaeta pallida_ Stage, tertiary, of syphilis, 45. _See also syphilis, late_ State, encouragement of early marriage by, 159 provision of, for recognition and treatment of syphilis, 168 Stigma attaching to syphilis, harm done by, 143 of syphilis, effect of, on venereal hospitals, 167 Still birth, relation of syphilis to, 96 Still's statistics on death from hereditary syphilis, 98 Stomach in locomotor ataxia, 49 Sweat-glands, absence of Spirochaeta pallida in, 39 Sydenham Royal Commission, 164 views on reporting of venereal disease, 179 Symptomatic cure in late syphilis, 87 Symptoms, absence of, in syphilis, 23 constitutional, of secondary syphilis, 36 Syphilis, absence of immunity in, 139 accidental, in physicians and nurses, 116 acquired, in children, 95 in marriage, 119 action of mercury in, 63 of salvarsan in, 74 active, relation of, to miscarriages and abortion, 96 adequate dispensary service for treating, 171 ageing effect of, in child, 99 and civil population, 183 and engagements to marry, 129 Syphilis and marriage, 125 and mental disease, 50 and prostitution, 18, 133 and public prejudice, 141 and sexual problems, 18 and war, 183 as cause of death in children, 98 of miscarriages and abortion in women, 95 as public health problem, 18 as social problem, 15 blood test for, 54 broader outlook concerning, 146 comparison of, with malaria, 62 compulsory treatment of, 180 concealed forms of, 23 concealment of, by gonorrhea, 30 confusion of, with gonorrhea, 13, 16, 31 problem of, with various issues, 16, 17, 165 congenital, 94. _See also syphilis, non-hereditary_ constitutional symptoms of, 36 contagiousness of, in secondary stage, 110 course of, summary, 52 cure of, 90 danger from irresponsible persons infected with, 150 deaths from, 48 definition of, 21 diminishing virulence of, 12 early, methods of recognizing, 32 educational prophylaxis of, 157 epidemic of, in sixteenth century, 11 eruption in secondary stage, 36 essentials of campaign against, 168 false silence in regard to, 15 five-year rule regarding contagiousness, 124, 126, 129 freak legislation in regard to, 166 guilt or innocence in transmission, 118 harm done by stigma attaching to, 143 hereditary, 92 accident and injury in, 105 contagiousness of, 100, 105 destructive changes in, 101, 102 early signs of, in children, 99, 100 late signs of, 101 mental symptoms in, 101 of eye, 103 treatment of, 107 history of, 11 importance of prohibition in controlling, 184 important advances in knowledge of, 17 in adopted children, 106 in British working men, 24 in families, detection of, by Wassermann test, 128 in father or mother of family, 92, 93, 126