RT Journal
T1 Syphilis and its accomplices in mischief: Society, the state and the physician.
JF American Journal of Diseases of Children
JO American Journal of Diseases of Children
YR 1939
FD August 1
VO 58
IS 2
SP 448
OP 448
DO 10.1001/archpedi.1939.01990080224025
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archpedi.1939.01990080224025
AB This book consists of the main portion (554 pages) and an appendix (162 pages), a treatise on eugenics entitled "Marriage and Syphilis."In the epilogue Dr. Katsainos remarks, "What was wrong with it to be so unanimously refused by every publisher, medical or lay, to whom it was transmitted, I do not know, and I was never permitted, as I have already told, to know." His purpose in writing the book was "to clear syphilis of its asyphilon [stigma]."The work is verbose, and the medical material is incoherently mixed with the author's private opinions, salted down with sprinklings of Greek mythology.