The Tonic Treatment of Syphilis

The Treatment of Syphilis

The Treatment of Syphilis

Before describing the method I adopt in treating syphilis, it is necessary to consider the state of medical opinion upon the subject. Since syphilis has been recognised as a disease, mercury has been trusted to as the chief remedy. In the present day mercury has been called by some a vital antidote to the syphilitic poison. Dr Farquharson, in a recent work on therapeutics, says of mercury in it...

The Abortive Treatment of Syphilis

" Is it possible, by excision of the initial lesion, to destroy the syphilitic virus and prevent infection of the general system ?" This is the extremely important question which Dr. Prince A. Morrow endeavours to answer in a very able and well reasoned paper published in the Transactions of the New York Academy of Medicine for the year 1883. The practice of surgeons has undergone a revolution ...

The Thorough Treatment of Syphilis

to control the infection, and points out that it is the duty of the medical profession to place the treatment of this universal and formidable disease on a sound and practical basis. Cure is possible, prevention is apparently impossible among free civilised communities. He, therefore, advocates that the " continuous treatment of syphilis," which has been made compulsory in the arm}7, should als...

The Modern Treatment of Syphilis

For many years the treatment of syphilis has consisted chiefly in an expression of opinion of the individual physician. In this book on treatment, Dr. Moore presents a complete picture of the treatment of syphilis, based not only on his very extensive experiences in the Johns Hopkins Clinic, but also on the work of others throughout the field. The work is admirably presented. It is clear and co...