74 HORSE-BACK RIDING. 



true cachexia Is developed, whose termination Is but 

 too often the grave. 



Sometimes the venereal poison at the very outset 

 produces a change in the blood, the proportion of the 

 red globules being decreased while the water is in- 

 creased. In a more advanced stage of the disease, the 

 anaemia may be the result partly of the disease and 

 partly of the prolonged action of the medicines em- 

 ployed ; the functions of the skin may be seriously in- 

 terfered with if the eruption be very severe ; the 

 strength may be exhausted by profuse salivation, or 

 insomnia may be produced by the violent nocturnal 

 pains which sometimes accompany this disease. 



In all these conditions, the anaemia manifests itself 

 by Its characteristic symptoms, and it becomes abso- 

 lutely necessary to aid the forces of the organism. 



There Is sometimes a stage of this disease which 

 varies greatly as to the time at which it appears, 

 where the poison seems to exert almost all its power 

 in the production of gummy tumors or a diffused 

 sclerosis. These growths may invade any part or 

 organ of the body, and, developing In the meshes of 

 any tissue, may either, by mechanical pressure or 

 by replacing the normal tissue, interfere with or en- 

 tirely suppress the function of the part invaded. 



The danger to be feared from these growths is 

 dependent in a great measure upon their situation, 

 those affecting the viscera or nervous centres being 

 much more grave than when developed elsewhere. 



