A common venereal disease caused by the treponema pallidum spirochete; symptoms change through progressive stages; can be congenital (transmitted through the placenta)
Furthermore the transference of lues, tuberculosis, diphtheria, pneumonia, erysipelas and other infective diseases would be inevitable if sterile precautions were not taken.
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The diagnosis in these cases rests upon the exclusion of lues, and is rendered certain by the removal of a specimen for biopsy.
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"Yes, it is all mad, but the worst is that he has brought the cursed sickness, lues"-(herehe whispered).