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'C and 'D.' marry and the result is 

 'K.,' my patient." 



In some cases I have traced the syphil- 

 ized ancestor to even a remoter ancestor. 

 The most prominent infant doctors of to- 

 day in New York City will not treat an ail- 

 ing child until they know the ancestral his- 

 tory of both parents ; and other doctors who 

 make a specialty of infants are doing the 

 same. 



It is costing too much to support the poor- 

 houses, feeble-minded homes, institutions 

 for the blind and deaf, asylums, houses of 

 correction, reform schools, jails and peni- 

 tentiaries. ^ 



I was not for two years president of two 

 of our largest cemeteries in New York City 

 without getting some insight into the life 

 in this great city. 



Dr. Charles A. L. Eeed, the well-known 

 surgeon and scientist of Cincinnati, a man 

 of about fifty-five, writes that he has had 

 about 5,000 women patients who have been 

 sterilized by gonorrhoea, nearly 2,000 of 

 whom submitted to dangerous and muti- 

 lating operations to save their lives ; and he 



