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PAUL F. STOOKEY, M.D.

Arch Derm Syphilol. 1930;21(4):628-636.

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A history of syphilis in women is difficult to obtain. The existence of a latent syphilis is frequently brought to light by a stillbirth, or by the birth of a living infant with all the stigmas and characteristic evidence, both clinical and laboratory, of congenital syphilis.

Wile and Senear¹ state, for obvious anatomic reasons, that the primary syphilitic sore in women is apt to remain a hidden and unrecognized lesion. The knowledge that the primary lesion of syphilis on the genitalia of women is extremely transitory dates back to the teachings of Fournier.² The American literature concerning chancre of the cervix is not extensive; Gellhorn,³ Wile and Senear,¹ Gellhorn and Ehrenfest,⁴ Warthin and Noland,⁵ Stookey,⁶ and MacDonald,⁷ all contributed to a comparatively scanty literature on the subject. Gellhorn and Ehrenfest⁴ in their first contribution placed the incidence of chancre of the . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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KANSAS CITY, MO.

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Submitted for publication, Oct. 27, 1929.

Read before the Section on Dermatology and Syphilology at the Eightieth Annual Session of the American Medical Association, Portland, Ore., July 10, 1929.

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