Prevention and treatment of prenatal syphilis

Management of Congenital Syphilis

“…Likewise, all women hitherto inadequately treated or who have received no treatment at all for their disease, should be compelled to undergo treatment during pregnancy since modern therapy, almost free from toxicity, gives exceedingly satisfactory results. Whether an infected woman should be treated in every pregnancy would appear to be doubtful according to the findings of Tucker (1949), Thomas (1948) and Ingraham (1948), whose results would suggest that adequate penicillin therapy for early syphilis, even given prior to the initial pregnancy, will eliminate the need for any subsequent “insurance course”.…”