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Excerpt from Syphilis Its Diagnosis and Treatment The following pages contain a concise resumé of the latest conclusions regarding the natural history of the disease and the best methods of combating its manifestations. No attempt has been made to be exhaustive; for the entire volume might well have been devoted to any one of the subjects of its chapters. And though individual experience, even if extensive, can never be as trustworthy as the consensus of many opinions, I have not hesitated to record the practical con elusions that I have come to, even when they were not in accord with generally accepted ideas. 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.
Excerpt from The Treatment of Syphilis In fact, what we learn at the hospital is the treatment of certain syphilitic lesions; but this is not the treatment of syphilis. It is not the treatment of syphilis as a diathesis - as a chronic disease requiring treatment for several years. This is because at the hospital we only see and have to treat the episodes of syphilis, if I may use the term because, when hardly cured, or even only relieved of their actual lesions, patients hasten to leave and disappear because we have no beds to give (and if we had, would they be accepted to those who have nothing more the matter, ' who are apparently cured, but in reality require prolonged treatment to end in cure. 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.
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.
Excerpt from Syphilis and Its Treatment: With Especial Reference to Syphilis of the Skin Except where otherwise stated, the illustrations are all taken from cases met with in one or other of these institutions. The water-colour drawings were the work of Miss Mabel Green, and I think faithfully portray the conditions as they were. Apart from this, however, one cannot help feeling, on reading the proofs through again for the last time, how little is based on one's own knowledge and experience, and how much is borrowed, consciously or unconsciously, from others. Where possible, I have acknow ledged this in the text but I should like to take this opportunity of thanking and admitting my indebtedness to, in the first place, my teachers at the St. Louis Hospital in Paris, on whose excellent groundwork, instilled into me many years ago, much of this book is based; to my senior, Sir Malcolm Morris, under whom I worked at the Seamen's Hospital, Greenwich; to Dr. J. M. H. Macleod, of Charing Cross Hospital, from whom I acquired any small knowledge I may have of the histology of skin diseases. In addition he has been of very great assistance to me in this present' work, not only with regard to material, but to a far greater extent in the wording and arrangement of the text, many of the sentences of which are borrowed from him, and in other instances he has corrected my own literary efforts and thereby eliminated many defects. 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.
The modern classic of race and medicine updated with an additional chapter on the Tuskegee experiment's legacy in the age of AIDS.
Between 1932 and 1972, approximately six hundred African American men in Alabama served as unwitting guinea pigs in what is now considered one of the worst examples of arrogance, racism, and duplicity in American medical research--the Tuskegee syphilis study. Told they were being treated for "bad blood," the nearly four hundred men with late-stage syphilis and two hundred disease-free men who served as controls were kept away from appropriate treatment and plied instead with placebos, nursing visits, and the promise of decent burials. Despite the publication of more than a dozen reports in respected medical and public health journals, the study continued for forty years, until extensive media coverage finally brought the experiment to wider public knowledge and forced its end. This edited volume gathers articles, contemporary newspaper accounts, selections from reports and letters, reconsiderations of the study by many of its principal actors, and works of fiction, drama, and poetry to tell the Tuskegee story as never before. Together, these pieces illuminate the ethical issues at play from a remarkable breadth of perspectives and offer an unparalleled look at how the study has been understood over time.
Originally published in German in 1935, this monograph anticipated solutions to problems of scientific progress, the truth of scientific fact and the role of error in science now associated with the work of Thomas Kuhn and others. Arguing that every scientific concept and theory—including his own—is culturally conditioned, Fleck was appreciably ahead of his time. And as Kuhn observes in his foreword, "Though much has occurred since its publication, it remains a brilliant and largely unexploited resource." "To many scientists just as to many historians and philosophers of science facts are things that simply are the case: they are discovered through properly passive observation of natural reality. To such views Fleck replies that facts are invented, not discovered. Moreover, the appearance of scientific facts as discovered things is itself a social construction, a made thing. A work of transparent brilliance, one of the most significant contributions toward a thoroughly sociological account of scientific knowledge."—Steven Shapin, Science