syphilologistn.

1851 Provinc. Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 29 Oct. 609/1 M. Cazeaux concluded his remarks by the following propositions, many of which will meet the approval of British syphilologists.

1885 J. Thorburn Pract. Treat. Dis. Women 44 Even the special syphilologist sees the primary chancre much less frequently in woman than in man.

1909 New Orleans Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 62 356 Two or three syphilologists had had hold of him, and he would not respond.

1948 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 17 July 141/2 Opinion in Great Britain seems generally against relying on penicillin alone in any form of syphilis, and most syphilologists employ both arsenic and bismuth as well.

1991 A. Nikiforuk Fourth Horseman vi. 109 Like every keen syphilologist, he knew that the pox will only disappear when civilization no longer takes it to bed.

2004 T. P. Lowry Venereal Dis. & Lewis & Clark Exped. ii. 28 A century later, the eminent French syphilologist Philippe Ricord, personal physician to Napoleon III, pronounced them [sc. gonorrhea and syphilis] separate conditions.