The Pathology and treatment of venereal diseases : including the results of recent investigations upon the subject / by Freeman J. Bumstead.

  • Freeman J. Bumstead
Date:
1866
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    The object in the preparation of this work has been to furnish the student with a full and comprehensive treatise upon Venereal Diseases, and the practitioner with a plain and practical guide to their treatment. In carrying out this design, theoretical discussions have been made subordinate to practical details; and, in the belief that the success of treatment depends quite as much upon the manner of its execution as upon the general principles upon which it is based, no minutiae, calculated to assist the surgeon or benefit the patient, have been regarded as unworthy of notice. The additions to our knowledge of Venereal, during the last ten years, have been numerous, and in the highest degree important. Among the most remarkable may be mentioned the distinct nature of the chancroid and syphilis; the innocuousness of the secretion of the chancre when applied to the person bearing it, or to any indi- vidual affected with the syphilitic diathesis; the removal of certain obstacles to a general belief in the contagiousness of secondary lesions; the fact that syphilis pursues the same course whether derived from a primary or secondary symptom, commencing, in either case, with a chancre at the point where the virus enters the system; the definite period of incubation of the true chancre, and of general manifestations; the inefficacy of the abortive treatment of syphilis; and the phenomena of syphilization, improperly so- called, and their correct interpretation. Several of these topics are entirely new within the period mentioned, and upon others much clearer 'views have been obtained; so that our present knowledge
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