The Mercurial Treatment of Tabes Dorsalis
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The question of the mercurial treatment of tabes has been very often debated in congresses and also learned societies in France during recent years. Diametrically opposite opinions have been expressed with equal firmness. On the side of the syphilographers, Fournier, Gaucher and Hallopeau trace a very fine dividing-line between syphilitic spinal complications which may be treated
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