RT Journal
A1 BATTEN JM
T1 SYphilis.
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1899
FD February 4
VO XXXII
IS 5
SP 229
OP 231
DO 10.1001/jama.1899.92450320021001h
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1899.92450320021001h
AB Remembering the old maxim, that "art is long, experience deceptive, and judgment difficult." I herewith offer some questions which are not clear to my mind in the light of my present knowledge:1. Is syphilis a curable disease, or is it possible to eradicate all the syphilitic germs from a syphilitic? 2, Is not a person once a syphilitic always a syphilitic? 3. Is the germ of tertiary syphilis the same as the germ of secondary syphilis, and also the same germ that causes the chancre? or is their virulency modified by removal from the chancre? 4. Is it possible to inoculate a non-syphilitic by semen, or secretions from a tertiary syphilitic, and produce a syphilitic chancre? 5. Should syphilitics marry? and when?In the light of my present knowledge, I believe syphilis is not an entirely curable disease. While it may be modified by specific and timely treatment, I