Synopsis
In Some Fallacies Concerning Syphilis, the author Edward Lawrence Keyes has elaborated on the severity of syphilis and its impact on the patients. The facts that syphilis has the capability to disfigure the patient and calls for untoward victimisation through social ostracism are indeed sad. Syphilis impacts the domestic life of its victim inadvertently. The local nature of the disease and the differences in the quality of the syphilitic poison along with the modes and methods of treatment have all been categorically highlighted here. The book deals with the ways the disease gets transmitted and also the acceptance of mercury as the tonic treatment of syphilis. The mention of the curative properties of the hot springs of Arkansas in alleviating the effects of the syphilitic poison or at least shortening its duration serves as a breather.
Edward Lawrence Keyes was a noted American urologist who spanned the latter half of the 19th century. He was born on August 28, 1843, at Fort Moultrie Army Base in Charleston, South Carolina. His early studies were at Yale and after graduating with a master’s degree, Edward served as his father’s aide-de-camp for a brief period. After completing his degree from Medical College of the City University of New York, Keyes started practicing with his teacher William Holme Van Buren. Eventually, he himself evolved into a lecturer in 1870 at Bellevue Hospital Medical College and professed his views on dermatology and genitourinary surgery. Edward Lawrence Keyes was the first president of the American Association of Genitourinary Surgeons when it was founded in 1888.
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