The intensive treatment of syphilis & locomotor ataxia by Aachen methods.

  • Hayes, Reginald Hewlett.
Date:
1914
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    The Intensive Treatment of Syphilis and Locomotor Ataxia by Aachen Methods^ Modern Alternatives to Mercury. In spite of its many competitors now and in tlie past, during which it has been used for several centuries as a remedy for venereal disease, mercury (provided that it be adequately administered) may safely be said to remain, from an all-round point of view, the most generally satisfactory agent for the treatment of syphilis and of so-called ' parasyjphilitic lesions'; for that diseases of the latter class (which Mott [i] suggests should be renamed ' parenchymatous syphilis ') are directly due to the presence of the Spirochceta pallida, or to some form of its life-cycle, recent investigation has clearly demonstrated. Now, of all drugs, ancient or modern, that have challenged the supremacy of mercury as an antisyphilitic, none ^ By Aachen methods I mean the inunction of a mer- curial ointment by the bare hand of skilled rubbers, under proper medical supervision, and in addition the use of sulphur water internally and externally, as administered at Aachen.