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Excerpt from Practical Clinical Lessons on Syphilis and the Genito-Urinary Diseases, Vol. 1: Syphilis and Chancroid
The same views of syphilitic infection were presented in the second edition of Berkeley Hill's work, by Berk eley Hill and Arthur Cooper, London, 1881 (p. And erroneously attributed to Auspitz of Vienna (al though in a foot-note the reader is referred, for further information on the subject, to my work on the Physio logical Pathology and Treatment of Syphilis) thus: The syphilitic virus enters the system by the absorb ents. It first sets up plastic growth in the walls of the lymphatic vessels at the part where it is implanted. These walls thicken and throw off into their interior, cells ionic/z contain tne virus; as these cells ?oat along they convey the virus still further inwards. But the infiltration of successive parts of the walls of the lym phatic vessels also conducts the virus inwards. When a lymphatic gland is reachea, the same proliferating pro cess ensues in the gland, until the cells are sent off through the effersent ducts to other glands, and so on to the thoracic duct. Thence cells, containing the virus, are poured, direct into the circulation, by the veins, and are thus quickly carried to the several tissues of the body T/zen appear tbc signs of general constitutional infection.'
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