Some aspects of congenital syphilis.

Introduction In 1917 Sir William Osler, in his Oration to the Medical Society of London, referred to the 20,000 syphilitic stillbirths which Sir Arthur Newsholme estimated then occurred annually in this country, and the numerous cases of eye, ear, bone, and joint, and-above all-nervous and mental disease which are due to congenital syphilis. In 1928 and again in 1930 Colonel Harrison referred to " the 16,000 and probably many more syphilitic expectant mothers who should be under treatment annually for their syphilis but are not." In 1930 Marjorie SmithWilson, using two different methods of computation,