"606" in theory and practice / by Paul Ehrlich and J.E.R. McDonagh.

  • Paul Ehrlich
Date:
1911
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    lines of treatment; this is of extreme importance when a vital organ is under consideration. Chronic superficial glossitis, renowned for its resistance to mercury, should certainly be treated with ‘606’. In tabes and general paralysis, and in short in all nervous diseases, a guarded prognosis must be given; and no case should be treated unless it is early; the prognosis is best in cerebral syphilis. In all intracranial and vascular lesions the risk of death following an injection must be borne in mind— infinitesimal as it is ; at any rate during the experimental stage, which we have not yet passed. Pregnant or puerperal women should certainly be in jected, and so should all cases of congenital syphilis in which a good prognosis can be given, except in cases where the central nervous system is involved, or the patient has interstitial keratitis; but these points want a great deal more working out. Any new line of treatment is met, and rightly so too, with scepticism, since sound arguments both for and against only can place the drug in its right position, but as is always the case, critics oppose its use on every ground, and such critics are usually those who have neither used the preparation nor even seen it; a priori their remarks are to be disregarded.
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