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Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopath...Page 458 of 6534. Syphilis.Venereal Disease.Syphilis is a disease concerning which it is very difficult to macomprehensive and satisfactory statements in a few paragraphs.The disease is too varied, and undergoes too many modifications bconstitutional influences ; moreover the best mode of treating itnot yet positively settled. We request the reader to receive oursubsequent remarks with a good deal of forbearance ; let it be unstood above all things that we do not intend to present a monograph on the subject of syphilis.JStiology. Syphilis is either communicated by a contagium, orelse it is inherited ; this last statement, however, only appliesfew forms; whether syphilis can break out spontaneously, is verySyphilis. 543uncertain, althongh there is no valid reason to deny it The fixednature of the contagium cannot be denied ; it is most certainlycontained in the primary ulcer, whereas its presence in secondaryaffections as well as in the blood is maintained by some, and denby others. The adoption of a different contagium for simple andfor indurated chancre depends upon observations, the correctnessof which cannot be positively impeached. In the vast majority ofcases the chancre-virus is communicated by sexual intercourse ;in a few cases only the virus is communicated by a different chanIt is not absolutely necessary that the chancrous matter should binserted at a spot where the epidermis is injured ; inoculation ctake place, even if the epidermis is intact ; for this purpose itto be very delicate, as the epidermis of the sexual organs generais. Syphilis can be inherited from the father as well as from themother ; it would even seem as though it were more easily inheritfrom the former. Most observations show that constitutionalsyphilis is a protection against a second infection by the virusindurated chancre, as much as a first attack of variola is a prottion against a second attack of this disease, llie incubationis short and does not last beyond the second week, whereas secondaffections incubate for at least five weeks. A disposition to conthis disease, inheres in every individual ; however, its ordinarymode of origination accounts for the circumstance thp,t male adulare more generally affected with it. Some persons seem to possessa natural immunity from constitutional syphilis, whereas othersmanifest a peculiar susceptibility to this disease ; this susceptseems founded in the so-called lymphatic constitution.A description of the separate forms under which syphilis generally manifests itself, cannot well be given in one connected paragraph; we therefore prefer describing the various phases of thedisease, each by itself, in the order in which they generally suceach other.a. Primary Chancre,Syphilis always commences with the primary syphilitic ulcer.Except when the disease is hereditary, we have no evidence thathttp://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt