On prophylactic & curative syphilization / by Victor de Méric.

  • Méric, Victor de, 1811-1876.
Date:
1853
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Credit: On prophylactic & curative syphilization / by Victor de Méric. 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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    real diseases. But it too often happens, even in these institutions, that patients leave long before they are sufficiently well, there being no means of preventing them, to go and spread the disease abroad. Our Lock Hospital has certainly done much good, but it is small, and very much out of the way. } Let us, then, improve our means of cure, and give every facility to those who seek for relief; let us continue to in- 'I vestigate the pathology of the disease; let us work in the spirit which actuated Dr. Tyler Smith in his late researches \ upon the uterine and vaginal secretions; let us carefully % collect cases, and establish statistical data; let us now and 1 then, by carefully-conducted inoculations, aid our means of ] diagnosis; let us discuss the questions of the unity or plurality i of syphilitic poison, the transmissibility of secondary symp- toms, the more or less affinity between scrofula and lues, and the laws of hereditary syphilis,—questions upon which M. Ricord has thrown so much light,—and we shall have no need of so insane a theory and so cruel a practice as that of syphi- lization. Brook-street, Grosvenor-square, Feb. 1853. i i