136 THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 



out the danger. Our Government spends 

 annually at least $3,500,000 to protect the 

 hog from disease. Millions to save the hog ; 

 nothing to save the child ! 



Bad as the above illustration may seem, 

 it is not the worst result from the "black 

 plague. ' ' There is thrown into the system 

 of a syphilitic man a toxin or poison from 

 the small protozoa, which causes the dis- 

 ease. This little animal organism feeds on, 

 breeds, and secretes into the circulatory 

 blood system of its victim. The toxic effect 

 is caused from such excreta, and it pene- 

 trates every organ bathed and nourished by 

 the blood. The germ plasm receives the 

 poison from the blood; the germ cells re- 

 ceive the poison from the plasm. The 

 poison does not always destroy the repro- 

 ductive cells. In some cases, the effect upon 

 them is to lessen their vitality so that the 

 development of the embryo in the mother's 

 womb is abnormal. The abnormality may 

 be some physical deformity or weakness, or 

 some erratic mental or nervous trouble. 

 There is no way by which one can predict 

 what injury, if any, will come to the child 

 from a syphilitic father or mother. 



