In this period gummata form, or there may be diffuse infiltration of various parts of the body, chronic inflammation and ulceration of the bones, skin and other tissues, nervous diseases, and so on.
In some cases the gummata are on the surface of the bone, especially the sternum, and at times on the long bones.
In some cases true gummata of the bone are formed.
Sometimes gummata break down completely, and suppuration, with destruction of the tissues in which they are situated, takes place; thus caries and necrosis not infrequently follow nodes on the bones.
These gummata may appear in the spongy portion of the bone, sometimes in the shaft, or in the epiphysis.
During the secondary period the lesion usually consists in effusion into the sheath; gummata are met with during the tertiary period.
They originate as gummata or as gummatous infiltrations, which are liable to break down and lead to the formation of ulcers which may prove locally destructive, and, in such situations as the larynx, even dangerous to life.
In the bones of the skull, gummata may form in the peri-cranium, diploë, or dura mater.
In tertiary lesions there is greater difficulty in demonstrating the spirochæte, but small numbers have been found in the peripheral parts of gummata and in the thickened patches in syphilitic disease of the aorta.
One or more of the gummata may break down and give rise to tertiary ulcers.
In the later stages of acquired syphilis, gummatous periostitis and osteomyelitis occur, and are characterised by the formation in the periosteum and marrow of circumscribed gummata or of a diffuse gummatous infiltration.
Syphilitic disease is rarely recognised except in the form of bursal and peri-bursal gummata in front of the knee-joint.
Gummata may develop in the soft parts, but more commonly they take origin in the pericranium or bone.
Gummata are generally situated on the surface of the brain; they often originate in the dura mater, and when exposed are easily enucleated.
Strictures due to gummata are more apt to occur late in life, but may therefore be easily confounded with cancer.
No gummataare ever found in rachitis, and the interstitial inflammation of the internal organs in syphilis is not met with to the same degree in rachitis.
Gummata in the lungs of children suffering from inherited syphilis have been described by a number of writers.
In one of my cases syphilis existed, as was established by the presence of gummata in the liver.
Gummata have been from time to time found in the kidneys of very young children who have died from their effects and from other visceral lesions due to syphilis.
In July, 1878, the wife had iritis, and after that gummata on the leg.
Kalkuda made a Gummata two cubits higher than at Belur.
Other colossal statues of Gummata are situated on the summit of hills outside the towns of Karkal and Venur or Yenur in South Canara.
Two inscriptions [203] on the sides of the same slab state that this image of Bahubalin or Gummata Jinapati was set up by a chief named Vira-Pandya, the son of Bhairava, in A.
Kalkuda then went to Timmanajila, king of Yenur, and made a Gummata two cubits higher than that at Karkal.
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