SYPHILIS OF THE STOMACH

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It is generally stated in textbooks on diseases of the stomach that syphilis of this organ is of rare occurrence, and that it is found in scarcely more than 1 per cent, of patients afflicted with the disease. The advent of routine blood examinations, however, and the great advance made in the diagnosis of all gastro-intestinal lesions by the use of the Roentgen ray prove that this contention can no longer be held. Since June 1, 1913, eight cases of syphilis of the stomach, in which the diagnosis was established with a fair degree of certainty, have been admitted to the ward service of St. Luke's Hospital. Five of these patients suffered from the symptoms of obstruction, and according to the assignment of cases by region, in effect since that date, were referred to one of us (W. A. D.) for operation. The other three were cared for in the

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