Syphilis : its nature & diffusion popularly considered / by James George Beaney ... With fifteen coloured plates.

  • Beaney, James George, 1828-1891.
Date:
1869
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Credit: Syphilis : its nature & diffusion popularly considered / by James George Beaney ... With fifteen coloured plates. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    eventually ascertained that about two years previously he had been treated for chancre,, and had since then had a rash for which he was not treated, but which I determined from his description to have been Lichen Syphilitica. There was un- usual tenderness of the anterior portion of the tibia in both legs, with patches of characteristic discoloration over the seat of tenderness, extending to the right and left. These indi- cations caused me to treat his disorder as though it were one of pure syphilis, and I had the extreme satisfaction of seeing a marked improvement in the course of fourteen days. In less than three months he was quite restored. This case was so well marked, and so decisive in support of my opinion as to the influence which syphilis often exerts in many diseases, especially where there is any peculiar dys- crasia, that I have many times since been induced to suspect its presence when treating idiopathic disease, in which I had unusual difficulty in controlling existing symptoms; and have modified the treatment with the best results. My experience so far has led me to the conclusion that medical men are little aware how often they are baffled in their efforts to relieve their patients by this unwelcome taint lurking unsuspected and unnoticed. The discovery, there- fore, of the intrusion of syphilis into visceral disorganisation is one of the most valuable additions to modern therapeutics, and has thrown much light upon diseases which otherwise were obscure. LUNGS AND AIR PASSAGES.—Diseases of the lungs and air passages are so common, and at the same time so in- tractable, that they naturally present themselves first for consideration, on the supposition that the difficulties generally surrounding their treatment may be found sometimes to arise out of the syphilitic association. Every practitioner is fre- quently painfully aware how little help he can give to the I 2