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Identifier: surgicaldiffere00maur (find matches)
Title: Surgical differentials
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Maury, John W. D. (from old catalog)
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Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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r interest-ed in this remarkable scourge will find a fascinating accountof it and its ravages, as well as the attempts which beenmade to control it, in that masterpiece, Sangers History ofProstitution. Due to some infectious agent, the character of which is un-known, this disease, in an individual to whom has been grantedthe usual amount of racial resistance, pursues a course which,for constancy of symptoms on the one hand, and for mimicryon the other, far excels and surpasses any known disorder.What the actual cause mav be for the fact that certain indi- 84 INFLAMMATORY MANIFESTATIONS OF SYPHILIS. viduals are endowed with a greater resisting power than others,is, of course, conjectural, but if protection in syphilis arises, ashistory seems to show it to do, by ancestor infection, it is prob-able that these fortunate individuals had incestors of question-able morals. Thus arises the possible ethical question as towhat our attitude should be toward establishing protection forposterity.
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sJ*- *r Fig. 15 Scheme for drawing the articulations of the wrist. This compositjoint is occasionally invaded by syphilis. The syphilitic inflammatory process, whatever its activity,or whatever its virulence, has one constant factor. It begins onthe surface of the body and marches relentlessly, slowly, but assurely to the center. It may take twenty years to make thisshort journey, but unless retarded by incessant treatment, makeit, it will. This conception of the disease is a convenient wayof interpreting or of predicting the symptoms of the threeclassical stages which are familiar to all. Like every otherlesion, its course must be studied from the standpoint of in-flammatory reaction. In its long career it gives manifestationof every possible phase of inflammation. More properly speak-ing, it affords excellent proof that the classification of inflam-matory reactions which has been developed to facilitate itsstudy, is simply an arbitrary division into several classes all LAWS GOVERNIN

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