Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Biology and Treatment of Venereal Diseases and the Biology of Inflammation and Its Relationship to Malignant Disease
Several observers described what they considered to be the cause of syphilis, but none attracted much attention until, in the year 1884, Lustgarten1 described a bacillus which resembled the tubercle bacillus. Koch had discovered the tubercle bacillus two years previously, and at that time the opinion was widely held that syphilis and tuberculosis were closely related to each other therefore Lustgarten's work was eagerly received, and was quickly confirmed from several sources.
Belief in Lustgarten's theory was, however, short lived, as in a year or two's time, first Alvarez and Favel,2 then Klemperer,3 and many others showed that the bacillus described was probably only the smegma bacillus.
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