128 THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 



has had hundreds of men patients that have 

 been sterilized by gonorrhoea. 



There are 150,000 members of the medi- 

 cal profession in the United States and 

 they have to attend to the ills of 100,000,000 

 people. Syphilis, he states, is the great 

 hereditary disease of the American race 

 and it is ever far-reaching in its degener- 

 ating influence on humanity. 



A bright attractive young woman re- 

 cently died of syphilitic cancer at the age of 

 twenty-three. She had lived in a city a few 

 hundred miles from New York, and occa- 

 sionally came to New York to wsit. In her 

 native city she held a moderately good so- 

 cial position. She had married at 16, and 

 soon thereafter was divorced. She had 

 been syphilized six years when she died. 

 With a pretty face and attractive form, she 

 soon had some of the finest fellows of the 

 best families in New York at her court, six 

 of whom she diseased — and one of them 

 told me there were twenty more. 



"What havoc she wrought in other cities, 

 God only knows; and, when called to ac- 

 count for what she had done, she simply 



