Gustav Baar
Published: 2015-07-22
Total Pages: 306
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Excerpt from The Modern View of Syphilis and Its Treatment Some years ago I was called to see a patient whom I found unconscious, exhibiting indefinite cerebral symptoms. I was told that the physician who saw the case before me called it ptomaine poisoning, while another considered it typhoid fever. I rather favored the diagnosis of typhoid fever, but after a week's observation came to the conclusion that it was a case of cerebral syphilis, a diagnosis which was verified by the subsequent success of the specific treatment. This case, which is one of those published in this book, (Case 1), led me to further investigate the pathological conditions which syphilis, not recognized as well as recognized, produces in man. The recognition of primary or secondary syphilis is usually a matter of no great difficulty. The patient presents himself promptly to the genito-urinary specialist, undergoes treatment for a year or two, or at least until his symptoms have disappeared, and then withdraws from medical control. In later years, however, he may come under the charge of the general practitioner, complaining of symptoms often exceedingly difficult of interpretation. The physician, in spite of a due appreciation of the clinical symptoms of latent syphilis, and especially in cases where there is an absence of a specific history, is often in the greatest doubt as to whether latent syphilis is present, the more so since the means for its detection have been until recently so uncertain. With the discovery and application of the Wassermann reaction, however, a new era has set in, and where once was doubt is now certainty. 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.