Pathological facts : respectfully submitted to the Committee of the House of Commons, appointed to enquire as to the means for the prevention of contagious diseases in certain naval and military stations / by David Macloughlin.

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[1864]
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Credit: Pathological facts : respectfully submitted to the Committee of the House of Commons, appointed to enquire as to the means for the prevention of contagious diseases in certain naval and military stations / by David Macloughlin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    use of your eyes, or by the use of your touch, or by inoculation, how can you prove the presence of a syphilitic virus in an ulcer in the throat 1 Therefore, ulcers in the throat are no proof of the existence of a specific syphilitic virus. 9th. jAs to syphilitic iritis. Does not every Medical Practitioner know that iritis is caused by a gouty diathesis ] and why, therefore, call m the aidT)f a supposed entity, which no one knows to account for the cause of a disease'? which every one knows to be inherent, and dependant on the human constitution. Therefore, iritis is no proof of a specific syphilitic virus. 10th. As to the so-called tertiary group of syphi- litic diseases, and as to ecthyma, and as to the 11, Rupia. Again, it may be repeated, what has been said of No. 6 above—that these are caused, too often, by want of proper food, and by w^ant of proper hygienic attention, and that they cannot be referred to any specific syphilitic virus. As to 12, nodes; and as to 13, diseases of the bones- Do we not see nodes and diseases of the bones, such as necroses, &c., occurring in every bone of the body, from external violence, from fatigue, from want of proper food, &c., &c., &c.1 Therefore, again we do mot require the assistance of a specific syphilitic virus to account for the existence oi nodes, or for the existence of diseases of the bones. And, in conclusion, we must say that the syphylido-