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<h3>Peculiar Cases of Syphilis in Women</h3> Dr. Léon Bizard, chief physician of the venereal hospital at the St. Lazare prison for women, has published an article on peculiar cases of syphilis in women, in which it is impossible to find a trace of the initial chancre. These facts have long been known to syphilologists. Alfred Fournier assumed that there might exist in the infected woman a small chancre of a transitory nature, which passed unnoticed. Jullien and Verchère reached the conclusion that syphilitic infection in woman might be generalized without a primary lesion, possibly by the spermatozoon contaminating the uterine mucosa directly by a sort of impregnation without conception. Dr. Léon Bizard, who has been studying this problem for many years, reached the conclusion that there are many more women who contract syphilis under these conditions than any one imagines. Since he has been subjecting to the Wassermann test all