TREATMENT WITH INTRAPERITONEAL INJECTION OF NEO-ARSPHENAMIN

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Abstract
Congenital syphilis is of common enough occurrence to require particular attention to the best methods of treatment. Treatment of the child through active treatment of the mother, while partially successful, is often unsatisfactory. The various forms of treatment of the child can be limited to mercury inunctions or mercury by mouth, potassium iodid or the arsenic compounds. The arsenic compounds are the most satisfactory, but their mode of administration to a child is difficult. Intramuscular injections are often accompanied by abscess formation. The ideal procedure of giving them, intravenously, is hampered in the infant by the small size of the available veins and the difficulty of injection into them. Any method that will offer an easy means of administration, combining safety with rapidity of action, would be the procedure of choice. Rosenberg1has reported a case in which the arsenic injection was made intraperitoneally. This procedure was accompanied by

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