Syphilis / by V. Cornil ; translated, with notes and additions, by J. Henry C. Simes and J. William White.
- Victor André Cornil
- Date:
- 1882
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Credit: Syphilis / by V. Cornil ; translated, with notes and additions, by J. Henry C. Simes and J. William White. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.
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![similar case, in which there was only one gumma ; it Avas large, homo- geneous, and gray. Tugiiel, Lancereaux, Lallier, Axel Key, and others have reported analogous cases. Simple interstitial nephritis Avithout guramous formations, and cicatrices upon the surface of the kidney, have been observed by Lancereaux, and reported by him as due to syphilis. The symptoms in connection with this lesion are the cachexia and albuminuria with their usual phenomena. But although the albumin- uria may depend upon the syphilis, it cannot be certainly determined from the symptoms alone Avhich one of the renal lesions is present, viz., amyloid degeneration, interstitial nephritis, parenchymatous nephritis or gummata. Albuminui'ia occurring in tertiaiy syphilis rapidly causes an in- curable cachexia. [The best and most comprehensive article upon this subject recently published, with which we are familiar, is one by Barthelemy, entitled Some Remarlcs upon Visceral Syphilis and especially upon Renal Syphilis,^ in which he gives a resume of the discussion which took place in the Clinical Society of London, January, 1880, and also adds several cases relating to nephritis of specific origin Avhich came under his own observation. In the course of the above discussion, Dr. Coupland reports two cases of hereditary syphilis. The first, a girl 13 years old, Avho presented in a marked degree the signs of inherited disease. At the time of her admittance into the hospital she was suffering with renal dropsy, and in the right side of the abdoniinal cavity was a very evident hai'd and irregular tumor, connected Avith the liver. She died after remaining in the hospital three months. At the autopsy, two large guramous tumors Avere found in the liver. The spleen was enlarged and indurated, but not amyloid in nature. The kidneys presented the lesions of parenchymatous nephritis. The second case, a girl 18 yeai-s of age, Avas one of a family oi thirteen children ; seven had died young, and there had been two abortions. There was no history of infantile syphilis, nor Avas there any trace of hereditary disease. Her health Avas good until she was 15 years of age, Avhen a periosteal tumor developed near the knee. This was followed by other nodes upon the anterior part of the leg 0 [' Annals de Derm, et do Syph., April, 1881.]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2151852x_0427.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
