STANDARD TREATMENT PROCEDURE IN EARLY SYPHILIS

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This presentation of a uniform type of procedure in the treatment of early syphilis is the product of a genuinely massive investigation of world-wide scope, sponsored by the League of Nations Health Organization and carried through in the United States by the combined efforts of the United States Public Health Service and a group of five university clinics aided by the generosity of several donors. The material embraces the records of 75,000 cases of syphilis, of which 3,244 were examples of early syphilis followed for six months or more, and 383 followed for as long a period as five years or more.1These figures, while not in themselves impressive, express an aggregate material larger than any as yet fully evaluated in the literature and are entirely capable of serving as a basis for a definition of the aims and methods of modern effective treatment for early syphilis. The time

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