Syphilis (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Syphilis The present edition of this work has been largely re-written and in parts condensed, but no important modifications of the opinions expressed have been found needful. The book is still, in the main, clinical, and is based upon observation of syphilis as it occurs in the human subject and in European races. Careful attention has been given to the recent results of experimental work, and especially to what has followed from the demonstration by Schaudinn and Hoffmann of the parasite which is now generally accepted as the immediate cause of syphilis. A considerable, and otherwise regrettable, delay in the publication of this edition has resulted from the desire to secure for it the full advantage of this addition to our knowledge. The discovery had, however, been so confidently foreseen, and had become by inference so definitely interwoven with the texture of our creed, that now that it has been actually made it brings us but little help. The phenomena of syphilis had been claimed as being certainly the result of a parasitic contagion, and the disease had been placed in the category of specific fevers which observe stage. We had, therefore, but little to learn from the ocular demonstration of the parasite and the giving to it of a name. To those minds incapable of accepting as practically proven anything not actually demonstrated, the discovery is invaluable, and, at the same time, it furnishes an important weapon of defence to those who for themselves had long ago accepted its conclusions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.