Clinical Aspects Of Syphilitic Nervous Affections

Author : Thomas Buzzard
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230259635
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book Clinical Aspects of Syphilitic Nervous Affections written by Thomas Buzzard and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1874 edition. Excerpt: ... clinical aspects syphilitic nervous affections. chapter I. on the Dragnosis op syphilitic nervous affections. Every medical practitioner, it may be assumed, is acquainted with the fact that persons who have, at one time or other in their lives, become affected with constitutional syphilis may some day exhibit symptoms of nervous disorder which are referable to this infection and may prove to be curable by specific treatment. Notwithstanding this, it is certain that this pathological association (and consequently its important bearing upon therapeutics) is very far from being generally remembered. The result is seen in the fact that patients frequently present themselves for advice who are suffering from some form of nervous affection dependent upon syphilis, "who have already received all kinds of treatment except one directed to the basis of their disorder, and who recover, or are more or less benefited when specific remedies are adopted. In the treatment of these disorders more, perhaps, than in any others, an early application of appropriate remedies is of the greatest importance, and frequently, it is certain, makes all the difference between cure and the continuance of irreparable injury, or even death. Even when from some circumstance or other, often from the sufferer's own folly in attempting deception, a correct diagnosis has not been made, and the patient has long continued to derive no relief from the treatment adopted, but has been getting gradually worse, a timely recognition of the specific origin of his disorder, and the application of suitable remedies, are very frequently found to stay the downward progress of his dis