Presuming a man has had syphilis, and, so far as modern methods indicate, has recovered and is free from taint and the risk of contaminating his wife or progeny, even in such a case, many medical doctors would hesitate, or even object, to sanction his marriage with a girl in whom they were closely interested. Yet, I think, to demand this altruistic code is outside the medical man’s jurisdiction. I know both men and women to whom the door of matrimony is closed for ever by an innocent kiss, if syphilis is to establish a permanent barrier.