Congenital syphilis of the throat : based upon the study of one hundred and fifty cases / by John N. Mackenzie.

  • Mackenzie, John Noland, 1853-1925.
Date:
1880
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Credit: Congenital syphilis of the throat : based upon the study of one hundred and fifty cases / by John N. Mackenzie. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    \ ></MI [Extracted from the American Journal of the Medical Sciences for October, 1880.] CONGENITAL SYPHILIS OF THE THROAT; * BASED UPON THE STUDY OF ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY CASES. By JOHN N. MACKENZIE, M.D., OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND. LATE HOUSE PHTSICIAN IN BELLEVUE HOSPITAL, NEW VORK, AND CHEF DE CLINIQUE AT THE LONDON HOSPITAL FOR DIBEASES OF THE THROAT, GOLDEN SQUARE, W. Isolated cases of laryngeal lesions in congenital syphilis are to be found scattered here and there through medical periodicals; but systematic writers have either entirely ignored the subject, or referred to a few recorded cases as pathological curiosities. The universal sentiment of authority is decidedly adverse to the frequent implication of the larynx, and the changes in the voice are referred to the intervention of fortuitous catarrh. From a careful investigation of the subject, which has served only to strengthen conviction, I believe: that laryngeal disease is not rare in congenital syphilis; that it is one of the most constant and characteristic of its pathological phenomena ; and that we may look for invasion of the larynx with as much confidence in the congenital, as in the acquired form of the disease. Through the courteous invitation of the President, Mr. Hutchinson, I was enabled to express this view, April Gth, 1880, at the Pathological Society of London. We occupy to-day the same position that we did not many years ago, in regard to the laryngeal manifestations of acquired syphilis ; and, indeed, we may find the historical parallel of this question in the development of our knowledge in almost every other department of laryngeal pathology. Formerly laryngeal disease in constitutional syphilis was regarded as a