Synopsis
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. 1859 Excerpt: ...the lapse of a few months, the syphilis became confirmed by the manifestation of constitutional affections,--roseola, mucous aphthae in the mouth, cephalaea, substernal pains, &c. Here is another singular observation. My interne was fortunate enough to observe six individuals, who had contracted the infection from the same source, and this under circumstances which rendered the identical origin of the infection beyond a doubt. The woman, it is true, escaped us, but we were able to study the relation of the affections upon her six victims. Here, as elsewhere, we find the identity of origin indicated by the identity of the primitive symptoms and consecutive manifestations. In fact, listen to what we observed on each of these patients. On the first (we have taken care to classify them in the chronological order of contagion), two indurated chancres on the corona; specific bi-inguinal adenopathy, multiple and Observation.--Six individuals infected by the same woman; same form of primitive affection and constitutional infection manifested in these different patients. In the course of a few months, eight individuals affected with indurated chancres, followed by constitutional affections, were admitted into the Midi, who had derived the infection from the same woman. Of the eight patients, there were six in whom the origin of the infection was beyond a doubt, as will be seen further on. The other two had to be excluded, and I shall only say a word about them in terminating. Here is what I was able to verify on the patients of the Midi:--1. J. D (Henri), aged 18; lymphatic temperament; feeble constitution; no venereal antecedent. Connexion with the girl Blanche about the 20th of June; former connexion dating a year back; no subsequent connexion. Two chancres ap...
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