Tongue and tonsils, contagious sores on, 42 cancer of, following contagious mucous patches, 138 Towels, transmission of syphilis by, 113, 115 Transmission of syphilis by dishes, etc., effect of washing and disinfection on, 114 by infected articles, 113 by kissing, 116 by sexual contact, 117 effect of treatment on risk of, 124 from father to mother, 93 from mother to child, 92 increased risk of, in tobacco users, 138 medical examination in prevention of, 123 not by door-knobs, bath-tubs, or toilet seats, 114 passive, by prostitutes, 135 personal responsibility in, 124 to wife, 125 under conditions of crowding and bad sanitation, 115 of everyday life, 114 unlikely in marriage of hereditary syphilitics, 105 Treatment, intraspinal, in syphilis of nervous system, 79 lack of effect of, on deafness in hereditary syphilis, 104 obstacles to control of contagiousness of syphilis, 123 of chancre may prevent recognition, 32 of syphilis, 60 advertising in regard to, 176 backwardness of this country in public provision for, 170 by drug clerks, 175 by quacks, 140 compulsory, 180 control of contagiousness, 122, 124, 126 dispensary service necessary for, 171 efficient, 88 expense of, 76, 173 expert advice in, 174 hospitals in, 171 importance of salvarsan in, 89 in pay-patient clinics and hospitals, 173 necessity for cheap salvarsan in, 172 various state provisions for, 168, 169 Wassermann test in, 57 with salvarsan and mercury combined, 89 specific methods of, 60 Troops, syphilis and gonorrhea in, 182 UNITED STATES. _See America_ VEDDER'S estimate of prevalence of syphilis, 25 Venereal disease, 16 and marriage, annulment of, 132 effect of universal military service on, 184 European and American provision in regard to care of, 169, 170 importance of national prohibition in controlling, 184 proposed military measures in connection with, 183 relation of war to spread of, 182 world-wide movement against, 164 hospitals and freak legislation, 167 Vermont, reporting of syphilis in, 178 Vice Commission, Baltimore, syphilis in prostitutes, 134 Virulence of syphilis in 15th and 16th centuries, 12 Vomiting in locomotor ataxia, 49 WAR, control of venereal diseases during, 183, 184 War, relation of, to spread of venereal disease, 182 Warts, contagious syphilitic, 42 Washing, effect of, on transmission of syphilis by dishes, 114