Latent Syphilis and the Autonomic Nervous System (eBook)

Front Cover 1
Latent Syphilis and the Autonomic Nervous System 4
Copyright Page 5
Table of Contents 12
PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION 6
PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION 10
CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION 14
REFERENCES 33
CHAPTER 2. SYPHILIS AND DISEASES OF THE THYROID 35
PHYSIOLOGICAL CHANGES IN THE THYROID GLAND 38
IDIOPATHIG DISEASES OF THE THYROID 39
SYMPTOMATIC ENLARGEMENTS OF THE THYROID 39
EXPERIMENTAL PRODUCTION OF GOITRE 40
INFECTION AND GOITRE 42
SYPHILIS AND GOITRE 43
SUMMARY OF AUTHOR'S CASES OF GOITRE 45
CHAPTER 3. ENLARGEMENT OF THE THYROID IN EARLY SYPHILIS 61
CHAPTER 4. ALLERGY 71
CONDITIONS ASSOCIATED WITH ALLERGY 72
METHODS OF TREATMENT OF THE ALLERGIC STATE 76
REFERENCES 78
CHAPTER 5. ASTHMA 79
ASTHMA AND SYPHILIS 80
ASTHMA AND DOUBTFUL SYPHILIS 81
CONCLUSION 83
CHAPTER 6. VASOMOTOR DISTURBANCES 84
THE EXUDATIVE GROUP 84
ANGIONEUROTIC (EDEMA 88
PURPURA 91
THE ANGIOSPASTIG GROUP 93
BLANCHING GROUP 94
CONGESTIVE GROUP 96
CLAUDICATION GROUP 98
REFERENCE 98
CHAPTER 7. NOTES ON NERVOUS DYSPHAGIA, WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO ITS CAUSE 99
REFERENCES 115
CHAPTER 8. SYPHILIS AND NERVOUS DYSPEPSIA 116
REFERENCES 121
CHAPTER 9. SYPHILIS AND THE 'CHRONIC ABDOMEN' 122
REFERENCES 133
CHAPTER 10. ABDOMINAL ADHESIONS IN LATENT SYPHILIS 134
REFERENCE 136
CHAPTER 11. SOME CLINICAL FEATURES IN LATENT SYPHILIS 137
THE LEADING SYMPTOMS IN 100 CONSECUTIVE CASES 138
WASSERMANN RESULTS 139
PHYSICAL SIGNS DISCOVERED ON EXAMINATION 139
CHRONIC NASOPHARYNGEAL CATARRH 141
CHRONIC LOCALIZED CONGESTION AT BASE OF LUNG NOT DUE TO CARDIORENAL DISEASE 141
CHRONIC CONGESTION OF ONE OR BOTH FEET 142
CHAPTER 12. ON CERTAIN TYPES OF TONGUE AND THEIR RELATION TO SYPHILIS 143
TYPE 1 : SULGATED OR FERN-LEAF 145
TYPE 2 : LINGUA SCROTALIS 149
TYPE 3 149
TYPE 4 152
TYPE 5 152
GENERAL CONCLUSIONS 156
REFERENCES 157
CHAPTER 13. CANCER AND SYPHILIS 158
THE CANCER FAMILY 164
GROUP I CASES WITH BOTH MALIGNANT DISEASE AND SYPHILIS 167
GROUP II CASES OF MALIGNANT DISEASE WITH CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE OF SYPHILIS 168
GROUP II CASES OF MALIGNANT DISEASE WITHOUT EVIDENCE OF SYPHILIS 169
REFERENCES 172
CHAPTER 14. CHRONIC PAINFUL SUPERFICIAL ULCERATION OF THE MOUTH AND PHARYNX 174
CHAPTER 15. PES CAVUS AS A PHYSICAL SIGN IN CLINICAL MEDICINE 177
REFERENCES 184
APPENDIX A CASES OF CANCER WITH FEATURES SUGGESTING ASSOCIATED SYPHILIS (APPROXIMATELY ONE-HALF OF TOTAL NUMBER OF CANCER CASES) 185
APPENDIX B SOME HISTOLOGICAL FINDINGS IN LATENT SYPHILIS AND CANCER 189
PLATES ILLUSTRATING HISTOLOGICAL FINDINGS IN LATENT SYPHILIS AND CANCER 192