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Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopath...Page 463 of 653The phenomena of secondary or constitutional syphilis are allconfined to the external skin, the mucous membrane and the higherorgans of sense. They succeed the primary ulcer at differentperiods, very seldom, however, before the sixth week and after thsixth month. They are generally preceded by a period of rest orlatent condition, but it likewise not unfrequently happens thatsecondary syphilis breaks out while the primary phenomena arestill running their course. The mercurial treatment of primarysyphilis is said to exert a moditying influence over secondary phnomena ; whether for the patient's weal or woe, is a question thawill be more fully examined by and by. Secondary syphilitic affeoSyphilis. 549tions do not yield infectious matter. It almost always happens than indurated chancre superinduces secondary phenomena, whereasa simj)le, soft chancre may run its course without any such resulMost observers maintain that secondary syphilis never gets wellentirely, but that, on the other hand, it is a protection againststitutional symptoms. It is conceivable that these two conditionsmay coexist, but not one alone without the other. We have seensecondary phenomena break out more than once on the same personafter repeated infectious intercourse ; the phenomena following tlast infection were undoubtedly milder, and lasted less long thanthe phenomena- succeeding the first attack.Constitutional syphilis is not unfrequently ushered in by vagueconstitutional symptoms which sometimes exist during the wholeperiod that the disease exists in a latent state. These symptomsare : lassitude, ill-humor, vague rheumatoid pains, backache, paiin the throat, slight transitory febrile motions. Such symptomsare generally so vague and trivial that the patient does not consit worth his while to complain of them.Cutaneous affections occur in all the different forms that characterize such diseases ; they are distinguished by one reliable dnostic, namely the peculiar copper-color of the hypersemia by whithey are accompanied. The form of the exanthemata is a lessreliable indication of their syphilitic origin. They generally resent circular or curvilenear figures always of the same style, escially the squamous exanthemata. Finally secondary exanthemsreveal a tolerably constant predilection for certain localities osurface of the body, more particularly for the hairy scalp, thefrontal and nasal regions, the nape of the neck, the volar surfacof the hand, the region around the sexual parts, the lower extremities and the soles of the feet. The most frequent exanthems areSyjphilitic roseola^ generally constituting the first stage of cotutional syphilis. It consists of small, rounded, brightwhich rarely run together, and are scattered about irregularly;they are immediately preceded by the above-mentioned symptomsof constitutional malaise. After the spots have been out a good ^while, they assume a yellowish, and soon after a coppertingewhich does not yield under the pressure of the finger. Thespots break out in different crops, hence are present in variousstages of development, which is an important diagnostic Theynever itch.http://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt