On the syphilitic affections of internal organs / by Samuel Wilks, M.D.

Samuel Wilks

Date:: [1864?]

Credit: On the syphilitic affections of internal organs / by Samuel Wilks, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$(D ON THE SYPHILITIC AFFECTIONS OF INTERNAL ORGANS. Bt SAMUEL WILKS, M.D. The syphilitic affections of the internal organs of the body constitute a subject which is comparatively novel, and one, therefore, which is still open to further investigation. Al- though it is but a few years since specimens illustrating it were received with more than incredulity by the profession, yet so strong has been the evidence iu favour of modern observations, that few pathologists now retain any doubt about their general truth. Scepticism, however, does still largely prevail. It is the knowledge of this feeling which has mainly prompted me to the publication of the following cases, for these will place in a clearer light what amount of evidence a large insti- tution can produce in favour of the facts which are wished to be promulgated. They will show sufficient, I think, to prove the doctrine, and at the same time will make it appear that the syphilitic diseases of the internal organs are not of daily discovery at Guy's Hospital, as has been surmised.' Some surprise, indeed, may be evinced at our poverty rather than our richness in illustration of the subject, especially as I have ' A very similar exaggcralnd notion prevails in reference to Addison's disease of the supra-renal capsules. Those vrho are unbelieving as to its existence come to Guy's, and expect to he shown half a dozen cases in the wards, when they o\ight to know that scarcely double that number has ever occurred in the hospital.$

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