INDEX TO CASES.

CASE

I.—Illustrates the effects of diet in the treament of syphilis.

Ditto

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II.-
III.—Illustrates the occasional contagious character of second-
ary syphilis

V.-Shows that when a primary disease is communicated, the
secondary diseases which follow it are different in each

VI.-Gangrene of the prepuce due to the occlusion of the per-

petual opening from balanitis

VII. Shows that balanitis, with thickening of the prepuce,
without ulceration, may be followed by constitutional
taint

VIII. A similar case; balanitis without ulceration, secondary

symptoms following

IX.-Balanitis occasionally produced by discharges from the

vagina which are not specific.

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X.-Discharges from the male urethra, after promiscuous

intercourse, not always specific

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XI.-Death from the injudicious use of strong injections of the
nitrate of silver at the onset of gonorrhea

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XII.—Profuse muco-purulent gleet of two years' duration;
failure of ordinary remedies; cure by a surgical
operation

81

XIII.-Remarkable case of chancre of the urethra, with consti-

tutional disease

XIV. Illustrates the effects of chancres of the urethra in pro-
ducing contraction and stricture of this canal.
XV.-Illustrates the use of the mercurial vapour bath in arrest-
ing the spread of ulcerative phagedena, after the failure
of ordinary treatment .

CASE

XVI.-Cure of phagedena by the mercurial vapour bath, after
the failure of ordinary treatment

XVII.-Example of secondary diseases succeeding to urethral
discharges; question of the nature of these discharges
-urethral chancre?

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XIX.-Illustrates the occasionally contagious character of
secondary syphilis; communication of secondary dis-
ease to a healthy person without a primary sore
XX.-A similar case; communication of constitutional disease
from a tainted husband to a healthy wife
XXI.-A healthy wife diseased by her husband without evident
symptoms on his part, probably by means of the
semen; no pregnancy

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XXII. A similar case
XXIII.-Illustrates the difficulties sometimes met with in determin-
ing the character of a symptom supposed to be syphilitic 187
XXIV.-Ulcerating syphilitic tubercle of the lip and nose re-
sembling lupus; cure by the mercurial fume, &c.
XXV.—Illustrates the metamorphoses of syphilis; localised con-
stitutional syphilis, simulating schirrous mamma
XXVI.-Localised secondary syphilis, simulating fissure, or ulcer
of the rectum

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XXVII.--Chronic disease of the throat, simulating laryngeal
phthisis, with ulcerating tubercles; cure by the mer-
curial vapour bath

XXVIII-Examples of hereditary syphilis.

XXIX.-Illustrates the diagnosis of secondary vesicular syphilis.
XXX.-Syphilitic ecthyma; illustrations of the use of opium in

syphilitic cachexia

XXXI.-Illustrates the treatment of complicated secondary

XXXII -Secondary syphilitic ulcers and caries of the bones after

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syphilis, with tubercles

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eight years' apparently good health

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XXXIII.-Stricture of œsophagus produced by the cicatrix of a

secondary phagedenic ulcer

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XXXIV.-Illustrates secondary syphilitic diseases of the lacrymal
passages; obliteration of the nasal duct by syphilitic
periostitis of the superior maxillary bone

XXXV.-Illustrates secondary syphilitic diseases of the tongue;
secondary syphilis of the tongue, resembling cancer
XXXVI.-Illustrates the effect which a change in the form of mer-
curial employed has upon some symptoms of secondary
syphilis; secondary syphilitic ulcer of the tongue,
appearing during a mercurial course, cured by a
change to another form of mercurial remedy.

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CASE

XXXVII.-Dissection of a case of ulceration of the larynx and

XXXVIII.-Syphilitic disease of the cartilages of the larynx; de-
struction of the cricoid cartilage by ulceration; dissec-
tion of this case, and clinical remarks on secondary
syphilitic diseases of the mucous membrane of the
windpipe and cartilages of the larynx; symptoms,
pathology, complications, and treatment

XXXIX.-Fungoid syphilitic sarcocele; cure by mercurials and the
iodide of potassium

XL-Syphilitic tumour of the muscles

XLI.-Nocturnal pains for ten years; suspension of the disease
only by iodide of potassium; cure by mercurial
vapour

PACE

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XLII. Caries of the tibia, with severe pains; failure of ordinary
treatment; cure by trephining

XLIII.-Node of the right temporal fossa; two attacks of hemi-
plegia; cure by blisters, calomel, and opium, with
hydriodate of potass .

XLIV. Syphilitic ulceration of the windpipe; cure by the mer-

XLV.-Infantile syphilis; influence of the father on a diseased

XLVI.-

curial fume locally applied

XLVII.-A diseased father cured; healthy children born after the

cure

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286

294

297

297

299

XLVIII.-Communication of constitutional syphilis in the latent
state from the husband to the wife, with pregnancy. 300

LI.-Infantile syphilis; separate influence of the mother on

LIV. Latent syphilis in the father; no disease in the mother;
six diseased children.

CASES AND CLINICAL OBSERVATIONS ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE TREAT-

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MENT OF SYPHILIS BY MERCURIAL VAPOUR, AND OTHER

REMEDIES.

LV.-Secondary phagedena of the throat; use of the mer-
curial vapour bath

LVI.-Protracted and severe nocturnal pains; failure of the
iodide of potassium; cure by the mercurial vapour

CASE

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LVII.--Constitutional symptoms of twenty-four years' standing;
prolonged use by the iodide of potassium; great
relief from the mercurial vapour bath

LVIII.-Case of syphilitic ecthyma; cure by mercurial vapour.
LIX.-Constitutional syphilis of seven years' duration; failure

of the iodide of potassium and ordinary mercurial
treatment; cure by the mercurial vapour bath and the
biniodide of mercury.
LX.-Constitutional syphilis, with bad health, for seven years;
failure of ordinary iodine and mercurial treatments;
cure by the mercurial vapour bath and the biniodide
of mercury

LXI.-Constitutional syphilis for two years; failure of various
remedies; cure by the mercurial vapour bath, without
internal medicines

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LXII. Constitutional syphilis for eighteen months; partial
amendment only by ordinary treatments; cure by
mercurial vapour

LXIII.-Primary and secondary syphilis; co-existing inability to

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bear mercury; disappearance of all the symptoms
under treatment by the mercurial vapour bath
LXIV.-Secondary phagedena; clinical remarks on its treatment 349
LXV.-Nodes on the forehead; cure by mercurial vapour;
clinical remarks on loss of hair and other symptoms
of constitutional syphilis

LXVI. -Primary phagedena of the glans penis and urethra;
clinical remarks

LXVII.-Syphilitic sarcocele; clinical remarks on treatment
LXVIII.-Indurated primary sore; pustular secondary syphilis ;

bad health; cure by the mercurial vapour bath,
opium, and decoctions of the woods.

LXIX-Pustular secondary syphilis; nocturnal pains; bad
health; use of the vapour; clinical remarks .
LXX. Severe nocturnal pains; clinical remarks on protracted
syphilitic symptoms

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LXXI.-Scaly peeling of the palms of the hands
LXXH.-Sealy peeling of the hands; scaly disease of the nails;
loss of the hair, eyebrows, and whiskers; cure by the
mercurial vapour bath; clinical remarks
LXXIII.-Induration of the cicatrix; clinical observations on the
treatment of indurations

LXXIV.-Formidable symptoms of constitutional syphilis; failure

of ordinary mercurial treatments, twice pursued; cure
by the mercurial vapour bath; clinical remarks on
the frequent failure of mercurial treatments, as
commonly conducted'.

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