A STATISTICAL STUDY OF SYPHILIS

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This study has been prompted by the gradually growing conviction that the men and women who suffer most from recurrent cutaneous syphilis are not those who become tabetics and paretics, and conversely that the victims of tabes dorsalis and general paralysis are not referred to the skin clinic for the treatment of recurrent or persistent late cutaneous syphilis. With the steady and insistent growth of this feeling the literature has been consulted from time to time, but with disappointingly negative results as to statements based on actual figures, for the authorities on nervous disorders are, as a rule, strangely silent on this phase of the question and the writers on skin diseases do not often concern themselves with the nervous sequelae of the disease. There are, however, a few exceptions to this rule. Collins1says that "it would be interesting and extremely useful to know what proportion of syphilitics

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