Atlas of syphilis and the venereal diseases : including a brief treatise on the pathology and treatment / by Franz Mraček ; authorized translation from the German, edited by L. Bolton Bangs.

  • Mraček, Franz, 1848-1908.
Date:
1900
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Credit: Atlas of syphilis and the venereal diseases : including a brief treatise on the pathology and treatment / by Franz Mraček ; authorized translation from the German, edited by L. Bolton Bangs. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    PREFACE. In complying with the publisher’s request, made to me two years ago, to prepare an Atlas of Venereal and Syph- ilitic Diseases, I have endeavored to produce a book which should be within the reach of a wider circle of readers, as both the scope and the eost of the pictorial works hitherto published on the subject necessarily restrict their influence to a comparatively small number. To carry out this plan it was found necessary to select those diseases which are of the most frequent occurrence and greatest practical importance, omitting such as interest only the specialist. The same principle controlled the composition of the text. The clinical material is drawn chiefly from my ward in the K. K. Rudolfs.spital in Vienna. I have to express my thanks to Dr. Braun, Director of the Xorthern Austrian Foundling Asylum, for two cases of hereditary syphilis; to (Prof.) Dr. Bergmeister, Primar- arzt,” for two cases of .syphilitic eye-disease, and to (Prof.) Dr. E. Lang for a case of di.sea.se of the hairy scalp. Mr. Schmitson mastered the diflicult problem of inter- preting and reproducing the various clinical pictures in an amazingly .short time, and has turned out a truly admirable .set of water-colors, the reproduction of which by the publishing hou.se has been done in the mo.st exem])lary manner.