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■WORRY CLINIC George W. Crane, Ph.D., M.D.'

Dr. Max is typical of many leading medics of 35 years ago. For my statement about the non-hereditary nature of syphilis raised a hornet’s nest in 1940. Notice that even in 1974, some doctors still confuse “congenital” with “hereditary.” CASE B-609: Dr. Max, aged 72, is a faithful reader of my daily Quiz Column in the Cincinnati POST. “But, Dr. Crane,” he recently remonstrated, “I think you made a mistake on one of your True-False statements. ‘‘For you said that syphilis is not an inherited disease! “Yet I know that newborn infants may have syphilis. “So certainly it must be an inherited ailment, isn't it?”

Since human infants are carried in the mother’s womb, they can thus become infected with germs or a virus that may be causing their mother to have measles or even syphilis. Although the mother's blood does not circulate in the blood vessels of the unborn baby, germs and

CONGENITAL VS. HEREDITARY

Numerous other doctors have also felt that syphilis must be hereditary because babies can be born with it In fact, one of the leading medical executives of the New York City Health Department raised heck with the Chicago Tribune Newspaper Syndicate back in the 1940s For he saw a similar 4answer question in my ‘ Test of Horse Sense” column in the New York NEWS, which read “Which one of these ailments is NOT inherited?”

viruses are so much smaller than blood corpuscles that they can slip through the walls of blood vessels. Thus, germs from an infected mother can filter through and infect the fetus before it is born But this is merely an example of “congenital' infection but not hereditary disease' For a syphilitic father may have a non- infected w ife but unless that mother develops syphilis, her unborn baby cannot inherit syphilis from its father! In short, a syphilitic hus-

band cannot infect his unborn child through a pure or non-infected wife! That is now an established axiom of medicine, though in this late year of 1974,1 have just cited the erroneous belief of Dr. Max to the contrary. Germ diseases cannot be hereditary, which means that tuberculosis and typhoid fever, as well as virus ailments like polio and German measles cannot be hereditary. Defects in the genes or chromosomes, however, may produce such inheritable ailments as colorblindness, deafness, feeblemindedness, etc. Gonorrhea is the other severe venereal disease which babies may contract from infected mothers, but can’t inherit! Many cases of blindness in previous generations were due to gonorrheal germs getting into the eyes of babies at the very moment of their birth. W : e medics now routinely counteract that dire possibility within seconds after the baby is delivered So send for my booklet “Facts About Pregnancy,” enclosing a long stamped, return envelope plus 25 cents.

( Always write to Dr. Crane in care of this newspaper, enclosing a long stamped addressed envelope and 35 cents to cover typing and printing costs when you send for one of his booklets l

DEAFNESS DIABETES SYPHILIS FEEBLEMINDEDNESS

Little Cause For Optimism: Mayor Berry

At the same time, an irate physician at St. Louis raised such a fuss with the Feature Editor of the St. Louis POST DISPATCH, that the editor called me at jnce so 1 could give him ammunition to demolish that doctor. Until the early 1900s. many physicians were led to believe that syphilis really was hereditary But they made a serious mistake in failing to distinguish between “ congenital” syphilis vs. hereditary” ailments

CINCINNATI Ohio (AP)The two-month-old building trades strike that has plagued area construction for two months was down to one holdout union today—but Mayor Theodore Berry sees little cause for optimism. A meeting called hy the mayor Monday between negotiators for striking Teamsters Local 100 and six ready-mix concrete companies apparently produced few results. Berry !ater reminded the parties of the disruption caused by the strike. “We have 567 million worth of public works which either

are stopped or cannot be contracted until the strike ends," said Berry . Monday’s bright spot came with the announcement that the 800-member Sheet Metal Workers had accepted a two-year contract which calls for a 36cent hourly wage hike the first year “and more the second." according to a spokesperson. The Teamsters are seeking 75-cent hourly raises each year of a three-year contract. The strike has stalled construction at four Cincinnati hospitals, a new 18,000-seat sports arena and a major water control project on Mill Creek

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