Syphilology and Venereal Disease
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The author acknowledges his indebtedness to the teachings of Fournier on syphilis, and to that of Finger and Neisser on gonorrhoea. Dr. Marshall also emphasizes the importance of both syphilis and gonorrhoea, " the oldest diseases which afflict mankind," as etiological factors in disease. The historical chapter is very interesting. It is clearly shown that syphilis was well known before the great epidemic of the 15th century, which was due largely to the soldiers employed by Charles VIII of France in the invasion of Naples in 1494. Hippocrates and Celsus have described ulcers of the penis, and the poet Martial clearly writes of a contagious venereal disease. Syphilis also appears to have been
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