The treatment of syphilis with intravenous injection of mercuric chlorid [sic] / by Walter Lytle Pyle.

  • Walter L. Pyle
Date:
1895
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Credit: The treatment of syphilis with intravenous injection of mercuric chlorid [sic] / by Walter Lytle Pyle. 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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    [Reprinted from The MedicaIS' News\ :^'s^ary 23, 1895.] 17FE0 96 \ \ .- g THE TREATMENT OF SYPH^^Li-^WITH INTRA VENOUS IN J ECTION OF M ER CUR IC CHLORID. BY WALTER LYTLE PYLE, A.M., M.D., OF WASHINGTON, D. C. The object of this paper is to present a new treatment of syphilis, which has been particularly successful in the hands of Italian physicians for the past two years. Recent reports of syphilographers indicate a tendency to supersede the older methods of treating syphilis, such as by oral medication, baths, vapors, inunctions, etc., by some speedier and more certain method. Dr. L. Wolff, of Phila- delphia,^ in a very admirable paper, in which he has embodied reports from many Continental observers, proves conclusively that the hypodermic administra- tion of the salts of mercury is not only a warrant- able, but an advisable procedure, possessing decided advantages. It is naturally open to many objec- tions, and has been fully discussed by competent critics. It is not in the province of this paper to reopen this discussion, but to describe a new method, which obviates many of the objections to the hypodermic injections; to give a dispassionate review of it, and to excerpt from reports of cases