On the Therapeutic Value of Thiosarmine in the Treatment of Syphilis

your February number, by Lieut.-Col. A. Denham White, m.b., b.s., f.r.c.s., i.m.s., and others, on the therapeutic value of thiosarmine, and have looked through your pages since then in the hope of finding comments, from other doctors of the status of the authors of that article, regarding the accuracy of the statements made in that article. The point to which I should like to draw particular attention is the way in which a course of five grammes of thiosarmine is shown to produce slightly better results than a course of one gramme of sulfarsenol. In the same way the authors compare a course of five grammes of thiosarmine with one of three grammes of novarsenobillon. They claim that larger doses of sulfarsenol and novarsenobillon are not well tolerated by patients. This is not the experience of many other doctors. I consider that these statements are misleading. Finally, I would like to draw the attention of your readers to the fact that thiosarmine is a preparation made by one of the authors of the article in question.