Recent literature on syphilis : with special reference to serodiagnosis and treatment.

Date:
1911
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Credit: Recent literature on syphilis : with special reference to serodiagnosis and treatment. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    the nervous disturbances suffices, from his point of view, to show the fact of their s3AphiHtic origin. Although the facts mentioned above are not, as yet, absolute cer- tainties, the number and value of the observations upon which these facts are based constitute presumptions which should impress all of us as to their worth and value. In all the cases in which my doctrine of para- syphilis has been adopted, it has rendered considerable service as regards the grouping of facts, the interpreting of them and the furthering of more and more careful researches. Furthermore, the explanation of the de- layed complications in the last stages of the evolution of syphilis is simple enough to make us hopeful that the lesson will be understood by all physi- cians. The connecting links in the chain reach uninterruptedly from the last complications to the initial lesion; and though we have hitherto denied this on account of our incapacity to demonstrate each and every step, our present attitude is such that we are in a position to recognize the im- portance of the role of syphilis in the pathogenesis of a large number of chronic visceral diseases.