Syphilis and Marriage

Syphilis and Marriage
Author	Jean Alfred Fournier
Language	French
Genre	Medicine
Published	1880
Publication place	France

Syphilis and Marriage (1880) is a collection of lectures in a book by French physician Jean Alfred Fournier, in which he advocated marriage between a virgin man and woman as the only reliable means of preventing syphilis.^[1]

Publication

Syphilis and Marriage was first published in French by Jean Alfred Fournier of the Hôpital Saint-Louis, Paris, in 1880.^[2]^[3]

In 1881 the book was translated into English by Prince A. Morrow, and that same year, an English translation was also produced by Alfred Lingard.^[4]^[5]

Content

In the book Fournier advocated marriage between a virgin man and woman as the only reliable means of preventing syphilis.^[6] He did not propose totally banning syphilitic men from marriage, but advised they wait about four years after symptoms first appeared before trying to have children.^[6]^[7]^[a]

Notes

^ In the nineteenth century, doctors believed congenital syphilis, then called hereditary syphilis, was passed to the baby through the father’s semen at conception. They thought the infected baby then passed the disease to the mother through the placenta, which explained why mothers often showed no symptoms until after giving birth. This theory was incorrect. Reliable tests for syphilis were not developed until 1906, and it was later discovered that treating a pregnant woman for syphilis could prevent the disease in her baby.^[8]

References

^ Tilles, Gerard; Grossman, Rachel; Wallach, Daniel (1993). "Marriage: A 19th Century French Method for the Prevention of Syphilis: Reflections on the Control of Aids". International Journal of Dermatology. 32 (10): 767–780. doi:10.1111/j.1365-4362.1993.tb02757.x. ISSN 1365-4632.
^ Dalrymple, Theodore (18 August 2010). "Unsyphilised behaviour". British Medical Journal. 341: c4496. doi:10.1136/bmj.c4496. ISSN 0959-8138.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: article number as page number (link)
^ Kampmeier, Rudolph H. (1981). "Syphilis and Marriage—by Alfred Fournier". Sexually Transmitted Diseases. 8 (1): 29–32. ISSN 0148-5717.
^ Bullough, Vern L.; Bullough, Bonnie (2014). Human Sexuality: An Encyclopedia. New York: Routledge. p. 402. ISBN 0-8240-7972-8.
^ Cooper, Sir Alfred (1884). "26. Medico-legal and social questions connected with syphilis, syphilis and marriage". Syphilis and Pseudo-syphilis. London: Churchill. p. 309.
^ ^a ^b Spongberg, Mary (1998). "8. The sins of the father". Feminizing Venereal Disease: The Body of the Prostitute in Nineteenth-Century Medical Discourse. New York University Press. p. 149. ISBN 978-0-8147-8082-4.
^ Otis, Fessenden Nott (1883). "18. Non-contagiousness of the late lesions of syphilis". Practical clinical lessons on syphilis and the genito-urinary diseases. Bermingham & Company. pp. 167–182.
^ Oriel, J. David (2012). "5. "The sins of the fathers": Congenital syphilis". The Scars of Venus: A History of Venereology. London: Springer-Verlag. pp. 69–70. ISBN 978-1-4471-2068-1. Archived from the original on 30 June 2023. Retrieved 10 May 2023.

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