Congenital Syphilis in Massachusetts

PHYSICIANS are in agreement that congenital syphilis is preventable. Modern medicine has provided the medical profession with epidemiologic, diagnostic and therapeutic weapons so that congenital syphilis need not occur. Hence, the key to the solution of the problem of congenital syphilis is the prevention and control of syphilis in pregnancy.Today, penicillin offers the most effective antibiotic yet discovered for the treatment of syphilis. It is the drug of choice in syphilotherapy because of its ease of administration, its safety and the brief period of time required to complete treatment. Its efficacy is equal if not superior to that of . . .