Constitutional syphilis : being a practical illustration of the disease in its secondary and tertiary phases / by James George Beaney.

  • James Beaney
Date:
1878
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    that is the stage at which prompt and judicious action at once and for ever disposes of the evil: it is also the time at which an error in practice will allow the virus to invade the system generally, and increase the difl&culty of cure. No time should be lost; no attention spared; no indifference as to choice of surgeon permitted. With these suggestions as to the primary venereal affec- tion, I shall leave it, and at once proceed to the task I have set myself—viz., to describe, as plainly and as practically as possible, the terrible nature of the secondary and tertiary phases of this disease. Constitutional Syphilis has for a long period been the scourge of the human family; having the ready mode of communication which sexual intercourse affords, it has spread with uninterrupted progress amongst all races. But although it has continued its march year after year, untH very recently it met with no important check from the medical schools.* Not having been well understood, it escaped detection in thousands of instances, and, under the guise of diseases having other names, insidiously spread Ttself by contact when its presence was unsuspected. Millions of men, women, and children, have fallen victims to this constitutional form of the disease, and it now appears to the observant physician almost everywhere present, wherever the constitution is seriously affected.t Indeed, » There is no disease which more imperatively demands the careful study of the profession at this time. —Aitken. + Of aU contagious diseases to which the human species is liable, and which cause to society the greatest evils, there are none more serious lo^e dangerous, nor so much to be dreaded, as syphihs; and I am not d f being accused of exaggeration in saying that xts ravages far :l:;ls those of all the plagues winch have at different tunes ternfied society. —DUCHATELET.