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Syphilis in Relation to Crime

Arch Dermatol. 2006;142:1546.

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THE JOURNAL OF CUTANEOUS DISEASES
VOL. XXIV
DECEMBER, 1906.
NO. 12

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This, however, is not so important as is the matter suggested by the preceding questions. You know that those llamas have syphilis, and are amenable to the influence of mercury. And the shepherds lying down with the female on the cold tops of those mountains, to keep warm near their alpaca wool, contracted syphilis from those females. Even the wool is a dangerous article of commerce before sterilization by boiling.

ALBERT S. ASHMEAD.    

J Cutan Dis.
December 1906;24:571-573. 

He prayeth well who loveth well
Both man and bird and beast.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)

Lurid rumors to the contrary, the chance of zoophiles acquiring a sexually transmitted disease from their animal partner is nil. There are, however, specific infections that may be passed by intraspecies congress. See if . . . [Full Text of this Article]