The treatment of syphilis of the nervous system / by Julius Althus.

  • Julius Althaus
Date:
1890
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Credit: The treatment of syphilis of the nervous system / by Julius Althus. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    become a flesh-and-blood-disease—appears to me as well established as any other fact in thera- peutics. Let me on this point quote the experience of a contemporaneous surgeon who has devoted a whole lifetime to the observation and treat- ment of these earlier stages of the disease, and who has had ample opportunities of following up the subsequent history of patients who have had syphilis in their earlier years. I allude to Mr. Henry Lee, whose special experience on this point is probably unrivalled, and who has recently stated that, when the patient has been in the first instance under a mild and sustained course of mercury of from eight to twelve weeks’ duration, he cannot recall a single instance where the bones or the nervous system have been subsequently affected. In order that this action may not be interfered with, he considers it essential that the patient should not be ex- posed to cold air or cold water, and recommends that small doses of iodide of potassium should be given to assist the action of the mercury. He does not believe that the necessary action can be maintained by mercury given internally; for if thus continued for a sufficient time and in sufficient doses, the drug is sure to disorder the bowels, and it will then have to be discontinued. When, however, the action of mercury in the
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