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Some Recent Advances in Syphilis and Gonorrhoea.-Threeadvances of great practical importance have been made in connection with syphilis: (i) the discovery of the specific organism of the disease by Schaudinn in I1905 has made possible the early diagnosis by the ultra-microscope at least a fortnight before any secondary symptoms appear; (2) Ehrlich's salvarsan has proved to be the most powerful weapon for the cure of syphilis, but has not been used long enough to determine the permanence of its cures; moreover a number of deaths have been recorded which were due directly to its use; (3) the Wassermann test makes it possible to tell definitely and accurately when the patient is cured.The advances in gonorrhoea are not so revolutionary as in syphilis, but there has been increased accuracy of diagnosis of the site of the lesion, improvement in the treatment of the early cases, and improvement in the treatment of chronic gonorrhoea.-J.Swift Joly, Practitioner, July, I9I2.E. H. S.Treatment of Syphilis by Salvarsan.-Bythe use of salvarsan for syphilis, the chancre, the mucous patch, and the condyloma, which are the active carriers of the contagion, are in the majority of cases healed over in forty-eight hours, thus greatly diminishing the spread of the disease.It is not yet certain that these cures are permanent.In cases of congenital syphilis, since salvarsan is not well borne by very young children, the nursing mother must be injected.In nearly every case so treated the symptoms in the infant rapidly disappeared.There are dangers in the use of salvarsan and fatal results have occurred in cases which were in a hopeless condition prior to treatment, or in which the drug had been wrongly administered.Since this is the first year of the use of this drug, the results are exceedingly encouraging
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