Syphilis and pseudo-syphilis / by Alfred Cooper.

  • Cooper, Alfred, Sir, 1846-1908.
Date:
1884
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    PEEFACE Having been Surgeon to the Lock Hospital for nearly twenty years^ and largely engaged in private practice during a still longer period, I have necessarily had ample opportunities for the study of venereal disease in all its forms. The treatise vi^hich I now submit to the judgment of my professional brethren is the outcome of the expe- rience thus gained. In it are embodied certain conclu- sions, to which my personal observation has led me, as to the nature of syphilis and the way in which it may be most rapidly and effectually treated. It is right that, at the outset, I should clearly state that I am not an adherent of either the Unicist or the Dualist theory respecting syphilis. Whilst fully con- vinced that the disease is due to a specific poison, I believe that the so-called soft sore is in no sense truly syphilitic, and that no special virus is required for its production. This point appears to me to be defini- tively settled by the experiments recorded in the fourth chapter of this work. I have discussed in considerable detail the effects of syphilis on the internal organs of the body, and especially on the nervous system. Modern research has shov/n in how great a proportion of cases serious lesions of the brain and spinal cord are of syphilitic origin. it is,