Letter to His Grace the Duke of Somerset, First Lord of the Admiralty, relative to the question is there a syphilitic virus? / by David Macloughlin.

  • Macloughlin, David, 1786-1870
Date:
[1865]
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Credit: Letter to His Grace the Duke of Somerset, First Lord of the Admiralty, relative to the question is there a syphilitic virus? / by David Macloughlin. 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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    To His Grace the Duke of Somerset, First Lord of the Admiralty. My Lord Duke, As the Secretary of State for War, has referred my pamphlet, entitled “ Proofs of the Non-Existence of a Specific Enthetic Disease,” to the Admiralty, that I might be sent for, to ascertain what I would advise to be done, relative to the question of the so- called syphilitic disease in the Navy and Army. As the Admiralty sent for me, on the 4th March last, sought for, and accepted, my advice ; and appointed a medical commission to study and to report if there is, or there is not, a syphilitic virus—and if there is a syphilitic virus, what are its pathognomonic symptoms ] And as this is the first scientific medical commission appointed in any country, to study, and to report, if there is or there is not a syphilitic virus ; and as this inquiry will not only be beneficial to our country—but to humanity. Therefore, it is of the utmost importance, that every- thing should be done by the above two departments, and by every member of the medical profession, who has studied, and who has practised his profession as a science, not as a trade, to assist this medical commission to discharge the duty entrusted to them with benefit to the human race and with credit to themselves.
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