TY  - JOUR
T1  - IMmunity against tuberculosis in general paresis
AU  - Wright BL
Y1  - 1909/02/27
N1  - 10.1001/jama.1909.02540350043016
JO  - Journal of the American Medical Association
SP  - 717
EP  - 717
VL  - LII
IS  - 9
N2  - To the Editor: 
    —In The Journal, Feb. 13, 1909, Dr. A. J. Rosanoff, in his article on "Immunity Against Tuberculosis in General Paresis," endeavors to establish the fact that syphilis, the great causative factor in general paresis, establishes an immunity against tuberculosis.I do not think that this can be substantiated by the facts; the immunity apparent from his statistics is in my opinion undoubtedly due to the antisyphilitic treatment to which, in the past, these patients have been subjected.Many good authorities now think that general paresis is more directly due to the use of overdoses of mercury rather than to syphilis itself, which is a further argument for the drug origin of the immunity which Dr. Rosanoff would ascribe to syphilis. He asks: "How would the course of a case of tuberculosis be affected by a superadded syphilitic infection?"From my own experience I answer: most disastrously, unless
SN  - 0002-9955
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.1909.02540350043016
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1909.02540350043016
ER  -