syphilophobian.

1842 R. Dunglison Med. Lexicon (ed. 3) 375 Of the former class are the dread of hydrophobia..—the dread of cholera, cholerophobia as it has been termed, and of syphilis—syphiliphobia.

1864 F. J. Bumstead Pathol. & Treatm. Venereal Dis. (rev. ed.) iii. vi. 475 There is a disease worse than syphilis, viz., syphilophobia,..over which remedies have no control.

1917 E. E. Southard & H. C. Solomon Neurosyphilis 67 Syphilophobia must be considered, not as a syphilitic psychosis, but as a phobia to be classified among the psychoneuroses.

1939 G. Rose tr. F. Kahn Our Sex Life xxiii. 333 One should not let oneself be plagued by syphiliphobia. Always remember that syphilitic infections outside of the sex zone are extraordinarily rare.

1964 Psychosomatics 5 148/1 In recent years, cancerophobia has replaced the syphilophobia of the past as a frequent obsessive preoccupation.

2001 Narrative 9 48 The good death cannot be the death of the syphilitic in this age of syphilophobia [sc. the year 1900].

1856 Lancet 5 Apr. 377/2 Let no one be deceived by the silly notion that the German syphilophobic show-room exhibits any true representations of Nature that are not matched or surpassed by our national collections.

1885 P. McBride tr. J. Gottstein Dis. Larynx 163 A slight transient catarrh is enough to fill a syphiliphobic patient with the idea that he feels the disease in his throat.

1894 Lancet 13 Oct. 856/1 He also remarked on the proneness of syphilophobics to suicide.

1915 Urol. & Cutaneous Rev. 19 657/1 Beware the syphilophobic patient. He worries the doctor to death with fears lest his acne or eczema be connected with his former trouble.

1932 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 2 Apr. 602/2 The syphilophobic has always, I think, remorse for some past or present wrong-doing in his mind.

2000 Art Bull. 82 141/1 Graef implied that Kirchner, despite his efforts at sexual freedom and the promise of a cure.., remained syphilophobic, like many members of the middle class who had been instructed in sexual hygiene at the turn of the century.