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Syphilis [\N] Webster's Dictionary 1828

SYPH'ILIS . [ See Siphilis .]

Syphilis [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The pox, or venereal disease; a chronic, specific, infectious disease, usually communicated by sexual intercourse or by hereditary transmission, and occurring in three stages known as primary, secondary, and tertiary syphilis. See under Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary.

Syphilis Encyclopedia Britannica

SYPHILIS. See Pathology, vol. xviii. pp. 404, 405, and Surgery, p. 686 above.

9th ed. Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 22, p. 813
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