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Excerpt from The Modern View of Syphilis and Its Treatment
Some years ago I was called to see a patient whom I found unconscious, exhibiting indefinite cerebral symptoms. I was told that the physician who saw the case before me called it ptomaine poisoning, while another considered it typhoid fever. I rather favored the diagnosis of typhoid fever, but after a week 's observation came to the conclu sion that it was a case of cerebral syphilis, a diagnosis which was verified by the subsequent success of the specific treat ment. This case, which is one of those published in this book, (case led me to further investigate the patho logical conditions which syphilis, not recognized as well as recognized, produces in man.
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