THE DIAGNOSIS OF SYPHILOMA OF KIDNEYS.

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It will not be possible to consider all the syphilitic diseases of the kidney in the few minutes allotted to this subject. There can be no question that syphilis as an etiologic factor must be seriously taken into the consideration of the inflammatory kidney diseases. That syphilitic nephritis exists, however, is doubted by some of the best authorities, it being classed with nephritis, and syphilis is considered only as an etiologic factor. I do not wish to insist that a syphilitic treatment should be instituted in such cases; in fact, authorities differ; some advise strongly against the use of mercury in these conditions. It certainly seems, however, that if it be a syphilitic process it should be treated as such. Neither do I wish to discuss whether or not amyloid kidneys are based on syphilis as an etiologic factor. Virchow, in 1858, first, reviewed the subject of syphilitic changes in

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