The Treatment of Ocular Syphilis

Experimental Ocular Syphilis and Neurosyphilis.

The challenge in clinical syphilis to-day is the detection of the disease in the sero-negative patient. The magnitude of this problem is evident when one considers that over 100 cases of ocular syphilis and neurosyphilis have been encountered in this institution within the past year (Smith, 1964; Smith and Moore, 1964; Smith and Taylor, 1965). Ofparamount importance is the fact that the majorit...

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...

Ocular Syphilis in a Kidney Transplant Recipient

We present a case of ocular syphilis after a renal transplantation involving progressive vision loss without clinically identifiable ocular disease. Electroretinography showed signs of ischemia, especially in the internal retina. A serological test was positive for syphilis. Lumbar puncture revealed lymphocytic meningitis and a positive serologic test for syphilis in the cerebrospinal fluid. Th...

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 ...