Wassermann test, 54 as evidence of fitness to marry, 130 difficulties of, 55 effect of mercury on, 67 of treatment on, 58 factor of error in, 56 importance of expert performance of, 174 to pregnant mother, 97 in connection with adoption of children, 106 in determining cure of syphilis, 58, 90 in family where one member is syphilitic, 128 in freak legislation, 167 in late hereditary syphilis, 106 in syphilitic mothers, 93 negative, development of infectious sores in spite of, 123 meaning of, 56 on spinal fluid, 59 persistently positive, 58 positive, meaning of, 56 practical details concerning, 59 provocative, 130 use of, in recognizing early syphilis, 33 Weight, loss of, in secondary recurrences, 43 in secondary syphilis, 36 Welander homes for hereditary syphilis, 108 West Australia, action of, against drug stores prescribing for syphilis, 176 attitude of, on personal Metchnikoff prophylaxis, 177 compulsory treatment of syphilis in, 180 state provision of, for treatment of venereal diseases, 170 Wet nurses, syphilis in, 100 Wife, importance of cure for, 128 infection of, by husband during pregnancy, 94 risk of infecting, 125 Williams, syphilis and mental diseases, statistics on, 50 Womb, chancre on neck of, 30 Women, child-bearing, effect of syphilis on, 95 employment of, in connection with problem of controlling venereal diseases in war times, 184 miscarriages and abortions in, due to syphilis, 95 syphilis in lax, 133 Worry and anxiety, effect of, on syphilitic, 137 Transcriber's Note The following variably hyphenated words have been left as in the text. Everyday Every-day everyday every-day extragenital extra-genital lifelong life-long lifetime life-time makeup make-up newborn new-born All bold text has been surrounded by + symbols. A List of Illustrations has been added to the text of the file. End of Project Gutenberg's The Third Great Plague, by John H. Stokes