SYPHILITIC INSANITY

Insanity

Syphilitic Epididymitis.

THE observation, since I93I, of seven cases in which syphilitic epididymitis,* without concomitant involvement of the body of the testis proper, occurred during the secondary or tertiary stages of a syphilitic infection, and the consequent examination of the literature, in which the rarity of this condition is emphasised, have led to the following report. Three of the cases occurred during the ...

Syphilitic Pleurisy

This following case lias lately been under treatment in the?Mandalay General Hospital A Hindu male aged 30 years was admitted into hospital suffering from necrosis of the sternum, the result of tertiary syphilis. He admitted having contracted syphilis some years back, but could not give any approximate date, there was, however, no doubt that it was some years ago. Under chloroform a sequestrum ...

Syphilitic myositis.

A case of myositis associated with secondary syphilis is described. Complete recovery occurred after antisyphilitic treatment.

Syphilitic Melanosis

Sir,?I am referring to a paper 'on p. 172 of the Indian Medical Gazette, April 1944, on 'Syphilitic melanoderma' where ycm state that in Becher and Obermayer no mention is made of syphilis as a cause of melanosis. In my book ' Histologie der Hautkrankheiten' Springer Verlag, Berlin 1925, Vol. I, p. 517, I do mention it and refer to Fourrier and to Unna as describing it as a rare type of the dis...