Syphilitic lesions of the osseus system in infants and young children / by R.W. Taylor.

  • Taylor, R. W.
Date:
1875
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    PREFACE. When ray attention was primarily drawn to lesions of a syphilitic nature occurring in the osseous system of infants, so Little was known upon the subject that I was soon compelled to tarn my inquiries from the few*works in which, indeed, it was but casually mentioned, to the disease itself, as presented in the sick, to a number exceeding a dozen, the details of which I have been careful to give at length. In a word, the volume of Nature was before me, and in that I studied. As a consequence of which I trust it will be found that, if my descriptions are sometimes minute, it is because the appear- ances were attentively examined; and that not only are those lesions which constitute the principal topic described with complete accuracy, but certain others which had been pre- viously confounded with them demonstrated to be essentially different. In this way, it is true, has occurred that the treatise has been somewhat extended; for, especially, in order to show in what respects scrofulous and rickety affections are distinct from those exclusively specific, I was obliged to go into a close analysis of them, and to make them fully understood ; a mat- ter the more necessary, as, up to the time I undertook the in- quiry, Science had given it but a very insufficient share of her attention. But not this alone, since, as will be seen, I had to dwell also on that separation of the epiphysis which depends on