used as combining form of SYPHILIS (also with variant Syphilido-). Syphiloderm, ǁ -derma (pl. -ata) [Gr. δέρμα skin], a syphilitic skin-affection = SYPHILIDE; hence Syphilodermatous a. Syphilogenesis, -ogeny, production of syphilis (Dorland). Syphilographer [cf. F. syphiliographe], a writer on syphilis; so Syphilography, the description of syphilis. Syphiliomania, a mental derangement in which the person fancies himself affected with syphilis. Syphilopathy, any syphilitic manifestation. Syphilophobia (also syphili-), morbid fear of syphilis; hence Syphilophobic a.
1852. W. J. E. Wilson, Syphilis, vii. 172. The hereditary erythematous *syphiloderma occurs in three principal forms.
1876. Duhring, Dis. Skin, 78. In the papular syphiloderm, pustules are at times seen intermingled with the papules.
1857. Dunglison, Med. Lex., *Syphilographer.
1871. Brit. & For. Med.-Chirurg. Rev., XLVII. 357. The last named distinguished syphilographer [sc. Ricord].
1864–79. Bumstead, Ven. Dis. (ed. 4), 499. The etiology of cases of this kind should be carefully studied, the subject being one of the most important in *syphilography.
1848. Dunglison, Med. Lex. (ed. 7). *Syphilomania.
1864–79. Bumstead, Ven. Dis. (ed. 4), 789. Three sad cases in which syphilomania has led patients … to commit suicide several months after all syphilitic manifestations had disappeared.
1848. Dunglison, Med. Lex. (ed. 7), *Syphiliphobia.
1864–79. Bumstead, Ven. Dis. (ed. 4), 789. There is a disease worse than syphilis, viz., syphilophobia,… over which remedies have no control.
1897. The Age (Melbourne), 9 Jan., 10/3. Witness found evidence of disease, not alone sufficient to cause death, but which would induce the mental condition known as syphilophobia, which would drive a man to crawl under a house to die, and would, in fact, drive him mad.
1906. Brit. Med. Jrnl., 13 Jan., 63. The patient’s syphilophobia had … increased to such a degree, that it became extremely difficult to manage the case.
1899. Allbutt’s Syst. Med., VIII. 190. Syphilis causes marked mental disease of various forms, such as *syphilophobic melancholia.
