Some Septic Infections and Nervous Lesions Following Chancroids

A.?Arthritis following Chancroids. In civil hospital practice in India, and in military practice, we frequently meet with a well defined chronic disease involving the joints, almost always affecting several articulations, permanent in its effects, crippling in its results, and extremely resistant to treatment; and the history generally given is that this type of arthritis has followed the appearance of a chancroid. It is the rule to learn that this chancroidappeared within three months before the disease in the joints, also that the soie appeared definitely two or three days after exposure to infection, had a typical appearance and course, and was not followed by any manifestation of syphilis at all. These conditions of chancroid and crippling joint disease are evidently in the relation of cause and effect. I desire in the present paper to call attention to this and some other remarkable lesions which follow rapidly on venereal sores, as I think they have not received the attention they merit, and in my experience are a very frequent source of invaliding in the native army. The term " chancroid is applied to what is