spi-ro-kee'-ta

Updated: May 1, 2025

Some means of showing the germ should be in the hands of every physician, hospital, or dispensary which makes a claim to recognize and treat syphilis. See frontispiece. Pronounced spi-ro-kee'-ta. +Syphilis a Concealed Disease.+ Syphilis is not a grossly conspicuous figure in our every-day life, as leprosy was in the life of the Middle Ages, for example.

John H. (John Hinchman) Stokes - The Third Great Plague: A Discussion of Syphilis for Everyday People