Syphilitic Foetus after Prenatal Penicillin Therapy

Syphilitic foetus after prenatal penicillin therapy.

A 32-year-old woman, married for 14 years, attended an ante-natal clinic in her second pregnancy. Repeated serological tests for syphilis were positive and she was referred to a special treatment centre for examination and treatment. She gave a history of vaginal discharge and enlarged glands in the neck 9 years previously, but she had obtained no medical advice at that time and the condition h...

Nicolau Syndrome after Intramuscular Benzathine Penicillin Injection

A 3-year-old boy was admitted to the emergency department with right lower limb pain, edema, and livedoid discoloration that occurred immediately after intramuscular injection of benzathine penicillin. The patient was diagnosed with Nicolau syndrome, a rare complication of intramuscular injection presumed to be related to the inadvertent intravascular injection. It was first reported following ...

Penicillin Therapy

Penicillin Therapy

Tlis book was written in an effort to simplify and condense the literature relating to reflexes. There are 465 references listed at the end of the book, and under the discussion of each reflex the literature is reviewed. An example of the effort to simplify the terminology used in naming reflexes is interesting. A diagram of the foot and ankle shows the places from which a tap with the reflex h...

Penicillin Therapy