Edward L. Keyes
Published: 2018-02-12
Total Pages: 620
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Excerpt from Syphilis: A Treatise for Practitioners, With Sixty-Nine Illustrations in the Text and Nine Plates, Seven of Which Are Colored IN order to make this work essentially a practical one, it has been founded upon the cases of syphilis observed and adequately recorded in our office case books during the past forty years. The number of these cases might have been many times multiplied by the compilation of dispensary records; but this would only have confused the picture. For the records taken of charity cases are so hasty and inaccurate, their histories so vague and incomplete, their disease so complicated by alco holism and privation, their adhesion to any one clinic and course of treatment so brief and intermittent, that it is not fair to com pare them with cases that have been, in the main, intelligently treated and watched for a number of years. Yet it is perhaps too much to say that even these cases have been intelligently treated. All have received treatment at our hands, but a large minority have received most of their treat ment, and especially of their important early treatment, at the hands of others. That the result leaves something to be desired may be inferred from the forty per cent incidence of tertiaries we have to record. Yet this result, which makes our cases more interesting, if less creditable, represents fairly well the status of syphilis in the. Middle and upper classes in New York, and in some measure throughout the United States, during this term of years. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.