syphilitic
adjective
pertaining to, noting, or affected with syphilis.
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People who have suffered from syphilis and who live the ordinary unemotional life of a teacher, or a merchant, or a writer, do not, as a rule, develop the postsyphilitic and parasyphilitic conditions.
From Psychotherapy by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh