Notes on Syphilis: With an Appendix on the Unity of the Syphilitic Poison (Classic Reprint)

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All such poisons, unless directly lethal, pass through the stages of increase, decrease, and elimination, the poison of syphilis only differing from the poison of the other specific fevers in its great duration, and in the fact that we possess drugs which exercise an appreciable influence over its duration and severity.* Bearing in mind the infinite difference of soil in which the poison may be implanted, and the variety of seed which is capable of setting up the syphilitic fever, it will not be considered incredible that the manifestations of syphilis should differ so widely as to range from a mere local lesion of slight duration and little gravity, to a disease which resists treatment and destroys life by a slow process of blood poisoning and visceral degeneration.

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