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Syphilitic

adjective
1.
Of or relating to or infected with syphilis.





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"Syphilitic" Quotes from Famous Books



... Moll was fifteen years old when Jake brought her into his home: his wife, Sal, was so feeble-minded that she allowed the illicit relations between these two. Moll's child was born in the hospital after the mother had been sent away from one Home because of her horrible syphilitic condition—from which ...
— The Eugenic Marriage, Volume IV. (of IV.) - A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies • Grant Hague
... same!' the boys reply. For George lost both his legs; and Bill's stone blind; Poor Jim's shot through the lungs and like to die; And Bert's gone syphilitic; you'll not find A chap who's served that hasn't found some change.' And the Bishop said: 'The ways of God ...
— Georgian Poetry 1916-17 - Edited by Sir Edward Howard Marsh • Various


Words linked to "Syphilitic" :   diseased person, sick person, sufferer, syphilis


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