Constitutional syphilis : being a practical illustration of the disease in its secondary and tertiary phases / by James George Beaney.

  • Beaney, James George, 1828-1891.
Date:
1872
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Credit: Constitutional syphilis : being a practical illustration of the disease in its secondary and tertiary phases / by James George Beaney. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    is the most important element of the treatment, otherwise we run the risk of seeing irremediable lesions appear. In such cases the trained eye is most valuable.* Case XXXIX.—Bilateral deafness. Facial 'paralysis. Intense pain in the head. Cured. H. G. consulted me in January, 1871, with the following history. Eight months ago, when in New Zealand, he caught chancre, with swellings in the groin and neck. Sore throat and roseola supervened, followed by paralysis of the left side of the face; subsequently severe frontal headache set in, accompanied by deafness; he has also suffered from twitchings of the limbs. When I first saw him the conjunctivae were considerably injected, and there was considerable laclirymation. He com- plained of noises in the ears, and said he was losing tlie sense of hearing; there was also supraorbital and temporal pain, and there was enlargement of the sternal end of the right clavicle; there were coppery eruptions on the chest and arms, and his hair was falling off; there was facial paralysis; the tongue when protruded inclined to one side. Corrosive sublimate, with chlorate of potash and tincture of bark, were administered for six weeks; and then Plummer's pill at night, with iodide of potassium in large doses during the day, replaced it; this was followed by medicated baths, and Donovan's solution of iodine, arsenic, and mercury; and lastly, the iodides of sodium, potassa, and iron were pre- scribed. He was cured in seven months. The EYE is an organ which is very often the seat of inflammation, and is frequently implicated in the early * A Treatise on Syphilis, Historical and Practkal, 18G9.