| Abstrakt: |
Ingraham and his associates1 have recently published a communication dealing with penicillin treatment of the syphilitic pregnant woman. Their report deals with 49 pregnant women, of whom, at the time of treatment, 26 had manifest early (primary or secondary), 19 early latent (no symptoms; infection of less than four years' duration), 3 late latent (more than four years' duration) and 1 congenital syphilis. At the time of their writing, 39 of these women had delivered a total of 40 infants (one of them 2 pregnancies).2The spectacularly favorable results in the prevention of syphilis in the fetus reported by Ingraham's group is confirmed by our own material. We have treated 31 mothers, all of whom had early infectious (primary or secondary) syphilis at the time of treatment, all of whom have now delivered and all infants are apparently normal. Our own material will be compared with that of |
