Practical Clinical Lessons on Syphilis and the Genito-Urinary Diseases - Tapa blanda

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883. Excerpt: ... LESSON XVI. Length of time required for complete cure of Syphilis variable: gentle, steady influence of mercury from one and a half to three years--Popular prejudice against mercury not well grounded--Testimony of all authorities in its favor--Destructive lesions of Syphilis belong to the late stage--Treatment not addressed chiefly to the accidents of the active stage, but to the prevention of so-called Tertiary accidents--The Sequelae of Syphilis--Unwarranted responsibility taken by those who claim safety after a brief period of treatment--Light form of early Syphilis no guarantee against grave late lesions--M. Fournier,s views--Prolonged and judicious administration of mercury essential in every case of Syphilis--Exceptions where treatment is not well borne very few--Security against late troubles to be effected in no other way. General remarks.--The length of time usually required for the complete cure of syphilis will vary in different individuals from one and a half to three years, and during all this time the steady, gentle influence of the mercurial in form, dose, and mode of administration as previously stated (page 119) is required until all abnormal cell-accumulations dependent upon the syphilitic influence have disappeared. When after a year and a half to two years all external evidences of the disease have passed away, and the lymphatic glands can no longer be felt, or have returned to the condition in which they were found previous to the constitutional stage of the disease, the treatment may be discontinued, but not before, unless there is some idiosyncrasy in the patient which centra-indicates its use. If the patients are faithful, sensible, and obedient, in by far the largest majority of cases, they will pass through the trouble easily and...