SPREADING SOCIAL DISEASES 129 



said: "A man diseased me, and I made up 

 my mind to disease every man I could." 



Dr. "T.," whom I knew well, was an as- 

 sistant to a doctor in a small town of four 

 thousand population, within a hundred 

 miles of Chicago. He told me that their of- 

 fice attended to men only, and they special- 

 ized in social diseases ; that once an attrac- 

 tive young woman from Chicago came to 

 this town and, within six months she had 

 caused to be brought to their office, alone, 

 four hundred men, whom she had directly 

 or indirectly syphilized. What happened 

 to the wives of these men — and to their 

 children who afterwards were born? And 

 finally, when they discovered the cause they 

 went out and brought the woman to their 

 office and asked her what she meant. 



"Well," she said, "I was driven out of 

 Chicago, and what else could I do? I had 

 to live." 



As I am sending this manuscript to my 

 printer, my 'phone rings and I am called 

 to a physician's office, where stands a 

 young woman, of say 22 years, as refined 

 and attractive in manner and dress and as 



