Clinical notes on chancre of the tonsil, with analysis of fifteen cases / by L. Duncan Bulkley.

  • Lucius Duncan Bulkley
Date:
1893
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Credit: Clinical notes on chancre of the tonsil, with analysis of fifteen cases / by L. Duncan Bulkley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    Locally, it is well to treat the sore, here as elseAvhere, with occa- sional dusting with calomel and the black wash freely paiuted on ; free gargling with saturated solution of chlorate of potash many times daily, helps greatly in removing the local trouble. Nitrate of silver in solution in moderate strength may sometimes be painted over the sore with advantage. In closing this clinical study of chancre of the tonsil, which has already far exceeded the limits intended, I wish again to emphasize the fact that I believe the primary lesion of syphilis to occur very much more commonly in this location than is generally believed to be the fact. Of these fifteen cases twelve have been found in the ordinary run of my practice during the last ten years, that is since my attention has been especially called to the communication of syphilis by innocent means, and since I have devoted much study to the subject. I believe if we are on the lookout for these cases they will be more frequently found, and many otherwise inexplica- ble cases of syphilitic infection will be cleared up, and some innocent persons relieved of the suspicion of having contracted the disease by venereal acts.
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