Clinical lectures on the physiological pathology and treatment of syphilis : together with a fasciculus of class-room lessons covering the initiatory period / by Fessenden N. Otis.

  • Fessenden Nott Otis
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1881
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    without affecting the healthy cell and tissue elements the highest type of treatment 84 Mercury thus administered the only safe and efficient remedy. Thorough pursuance of this plan results in complete and satisfactory cures in great majority of cases, and best prevents the sequela? of syphilis 85 Mercury sometimes not well borne 86 Such cases rare. Iodine and its compounds substitutes for mercury. Its curative influence small in the early stages of syphilis. Its power to pre- vent the later lesions insignificant 86 Its value in the cure of late lesions inestimable 86 The tendency of the active lesions of syphilis toward recovery without me- dicinal treatment 88 Iodine and iodide of potassium produce beneficial effects through their power of inducing tissue metamorphosis. Views of authorities in regard to their properties and powers. Late lesions of syphilis all due to deposits of i gummy material. Their removal possible, only by fatty degeneration.. Iodine and iodide of potassium potent agents in inducing it. Mercury the most potent agent in removing neoplastic growths 90 Reasons why a combination of mercury and the iodide of potassium constitute the remedies par excellence in the treatment of all the late lesions of syphilis 91 CLASS ROOM LESSONS ON SYPHILIS. Lesson I. The initial lesion of syphilis or chancre 92 Varieties. Description of each, with explanations of their physical character- istics ....... 92 Modifications to which the different forms of initial lesion are subject .... 92 Modifications from implantation of the virus of chancroid or other vicious secretions 92' Lesson II. Incubation of Syphilis (so called) and the treatment of the initial lesion of syph- ilis, and its different forms and modifications 96> Lesson IIL Contagion of syphilis — 1. By direct contact. 2. By mediate contagion. Prophylaxis 100 Lesson IV. Syphilis by hereditary transmission. Only possible through previous infection of the mother. Arguments in favor of this view. Tertiary syphilis not capable of transmission 103 Without contagium there is no syphilis , 105> Possible sources of error in diagnosis. Clinical cases in illustration .... 105 Lesson V. Early differential diagnosis in syphilis . 10$> Clinical cases . .......... 109' Lesson VI. Progress of the syphilitic infection . , , IIS
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