It is applied locally for various skin diseases, including syphilitic ulcers, and as a depilatory.
He also makes favorable report of a cataplasm of the leaves as a local application to syphilitic ulcers and as a means of relieving the pain attendant on the bites of venomous insects.
The bruised leaves are used locally in painful affections of the joints and to abort syphilitic buboes and abscesses of all kinds.
Used as a friction to scrofulous and syphilitic tumours, and to remove syphilitic and rheumatic pains.
Dr Alt states that he has used them extensively, and with much success, in old-standing cases of syphilitic eruptions, and after a course of mercurial treatment.
Used by persons afflicted with syphilitic affections of the throat and palate, as a convenient method of mercurial fumigation.
In diseases of a syphilitic character, he had found his mode of treatment infallible; and he therefore concluded that all obstinate and rebellious affections were the result of some other constitutional predisposing circumstances.
Warts, except of a syphilitic character, were never known to germinate diseases; indeed, they affect the most healthy and robust individuals.
Syphilis has no direct influence in inducing the disease, but a syphilitic chap or ulcer may be the starting-point of an epithelioma.
On the other hand, circumcised races, whose women have not carried a syphilitic taint into the race, are as a class free from any syphilitic taint.
In the twelfth volume of the "Transactions" of the same society he finds the record of the case of a soldier who lost his penis through gangrene induced by syphilitic phagedena.
Richardson mentions the immunity of the Jewish race from tubercular disease, and notices the well-known relation existing between a syphilitic taint and a phthisical tendency.
Occasionally it is syphilitic in origin; whenever the sciatica is double it commonly develops on a basis of diabetes, while in many cases it is of an infectious nature.
Such immunity in the mother of the syphilitic child can only come, so far as the present state of our knowledge goes, from her having had the disease.
It is perfectly possible, however, that syphilitic infective material may accompany the spermatozoon and so bring about the occurrence of syphilis in the offspring.
It is almost impossible for a syphilitic woman to nurse a child, if she is in an active stage of the disease, without the production of such infective sores on her nipples.
Oftener it is a very early symptom of syphilitic spinal myelitis.
The mother gives no sign of the disease, but Colles' Law is that the mother of a syphilitic child may, without danger to herself, be allowed to nurse her own infant even though she herself has never had any symptoms.
The strain upon their nervous systems seem to be so great that the syphilitic virus still remaining in their system has a peculiarly degenerative effect upon nervous tissue.
Post-syphilitic nervous conditions of so many kinds are likely to develop that it is important to warn the patients who are sufferers from this disease from taking up the more strenuous forms of existence.
In the same way syphiliticnurses are likely to infect nurslings, though, of course, in this case there are usually syphilitic sores on the nipples which directly communicate the disease.
Both explanations leave a mystery, but the mystery in the second case can be explained more in consonance with what we know about syphilitic transmission and immunity than in the other case.
Syphilitic patients should be warned of the danger of pursuing vocations that make such demands upon them.
We would not think for a moment of allowing an ordinarily healthy women to nurse a syphilitic child.
The mercurial cachexy is quite as deplorable, and quite as incurable as the Syphilitic cachexy.
These Syphilitic eruptions are distinguished by a coppery or a livid-grayish colour, and by the absence of itching.
When these have a syphilitic origin, the mercurial doubtless combats the local manifestation in the same way that it can counteract the general action in the blood.
I need scarcely say that these remedies are applicable only in simple Lepra and Psoriasis, and not in the syphilitic forms of those eruptions, which are treated best by Mercury, or by other medicines of the second order of Catalytics.
This medicine is very active in causing the absorption of syphilitic nodes.
It is more or less useful in all non-syphilitic cutaneous disorders.
These are medicines whose operation in the blood results in the counteraction or neutralization of the syphilitic poison.
Mr. Hunt considers it to be a specific for all skin diseases that are not syphilitic in their origin.
It is thought by some to purify the blood, and also to have a kind of specific influence over it in old syphilitic cases.
He was extensively tattooed and showed remains of an old syphilitic lesion.
But Case 28 is placed here for its syphilitic interest.
Should not a government which enlists a syphilitic pay full allowances to him when under war conditions he becomes a neurosyphilitic?
A laboring man, 42, who always strenuously denied syphilitic infection, proceeded to France eight months after enlistment.
Compare in this connection also Case 63, in which a syphilitic developed convulsions during antisyphilitic treatment.
He thinks it might be better for a syphilitic subject to contract typhoid or paratyphoid fever than to run the risk of developing paresis.
A man acquiring syphilis under the connivance of government ought to stand as well as a syphilitic hired by the government, when it shall come to the question of compensation for incapacity.
Only on such a basis could the syphilitic ocular palsy of Case 19 be satisfactorily explained.
If the soldier happened to be not only syphilitic but alcoholic, then the danger would be larger.
Not only is the history of his children suggestive, but the impairment of mind noted by the captain as due to alcohol may very possibly be syphilitic in origin.
The diagnosis was “brain tumor” or “syphilitic meningitis of the base.
Paris goes so far as to state that he regards it as imprudent to vaccinate a syphilitic subject.
The syphilitic basis of sundry military difficulties, quite unsuspected by the laity and probably not too well understood by service men, is suggested by Case 1, a case of desertion by a French officer of high rank.
In children born of syphilitic parents, deep cracks often appear at either side of the mouth and do not heal as readily as ordinary sores, but continue a long time, and eventually leave deep scars.
Children born with syphilis of syphilitic parents show the disease at birth or usually within one or two months.
The central nervous system is peculiarly susceptible to the action of the syphilitic poison, and when affected may show the fact through paralysis, crippling, disabling, and disfiguring disorders.
The syphilitic child has been described as a "little old man with a cold in his head.
There are several other kinds of sores which have no connection with syphilis and yet may resemble thesyphilitic sore so closely that it becomes impossible to distinguish between them except by the later symptoms to be described.
When examined these ulcers presented the peculiarities of chancres, and there was upon the body of the patient a well-marked syphilitic roseola.
Armstrong describes an anomalous case of pregnancy in a syphilitic patient who discharged fetal bones by the rectum.
It has been ascribed to syphilis; but syphilitic leukoderma is generally the result of cicatrices following syphilitic ulceration.
Horns are generally solitary but cases of multiple formation are known Lewin and Heller record a syphilitic case with eight cutaneous horns on the palms and soles.
An elderly member of the profession presented himself entirely covered with an evident syphilitic eruption, which rapidly disappeared under the use of mercury.
Benham mentions the discharge of a fetus by the rectum; there was a stricture of the rectum associated with syphilitic patches, necessitating the performance of colotomy.
Some American writers claim to have found evidences of syphilitic disease in the skulls and other bones of the prehistoric Indian mounds, thus giving further evidence to the advocates of the American origin of syphilis.
This man was afflicted with a syphilitic affection of the mouth, and he constructed a swab ten inches long with which to cleanse his fauces.
Postmortem examination shows extensive extravasations into the internal viscera, and also organic syphilitic lesions.
Jones reports a case of syphilitic inoculation from a human bite on the hand.
The possibility of mistaking tertiary syphilitic pain for neuralgia is fraught with such grave dangers, that we ought to be constantly and most vigilantly on the watch against it.
It is the first of these varieties of syphilitic pains which is least commonly confounded with neuralgia.
The pains, however, which are now to be described, are those which occur in the ordinary course of a constitutional syphilitic infection, and have nothing to do with neuralgia proper, from which they should be carefully distinguished.
Hughlings Jackson (who has done so much to acquaint us with syphilitic affections of cerebral arteries) in vol.
The treatment of syphiliticpains will, in doubtful cases, often give us valuable assurance of the correctness of our diagnosis.
Of syphilitic neuralgia the treatment may be summed up in a few words: Give iodide of potassium in doses rapidly increased up to a daily quantum of twenty to thirty grains.
There are two varieties of syphilitic pains proper, which are quite distinct.
But in the case of a more limited syphilitic affection of the dura mater, pain, of the kind already described, may be for some days the only very noticeable symptom.
But the most interesting consideration that we have to deal with is the question of the supposed relations of the rheumatic and the gouty diatheses, and the syphilitic dyscrasia, to the neuralgic tendency.
Potassium Chlorate: local application of powder to all kinds of syphilitic ulcers; gargle in mercurial and specific stomatitis.
Potassium Iodide: in syphilitic history if one nerve only is paralyzed.
Aurum: in recurringsyphilitic affections where mercury and iodide of potassium fail.
Mercury: in deep-seated inflammations, especially those of serous membranes, and iritis, and syphilitic cases.
Resorcin: in syphilitic and other unhealthy sores as an antiseptic.
Mercury and Morphine Oleate: in syphilitic enlargement and chronic inflammation.
Bicyanide of Mercury: to destroy mucous tubercles, condylomata and to apply to syphilitic ulceration of the tonsils and tongue.
Potassium salts: especially the iodide and vegetable salts in syphilitic or amyloid disease.
Cross-examination continued: I never knew syphilitic poison produce tetanic convulsions, except in cases where there was disease of the bones of the head.
There were no indications of a syphilitic character about the sores, and there was no ulceration of the throat, but one of the tonsils was slightly enlarged and tender.
The symptoms at the root of the tongue and the throat I should ascribe tosyphilitic inflammation of the throat.
I know of no instance in which a syphilitic sore has led to tetanus.
I never knew tetanus result from sore throat, or from a chancre, or from any other form of syphilitic disease.
That examination was not conducted with the same minuteness and precision that circumstances rendered necessary on a subsequent occasion, and the syphilitic disease was neither ascertained nor suspected.
Seven or eight glasses of brandy-and-water did this good young man drink, and the result was that his unfortunate syphilitic throat was in a very dreadful state, if not of actual laceration, at least of soreness and irritation.
Savage, got rid of it, and there is no pretence for saying he was suffering under any syphilitic affection of any kind.
The irritation which is likely to produce tetanus is the sore being exposed to friction, to which syphilitic sores in the throat are not exposed.
If a man had taken mercury for a syphilitic affection within two or three weeks I should have expected to find it.
I never knew tetanus arise either from syphiliticsores or from sore throat.
Do you remember the account of the syphilitic sores?
The chancre and syphilitic sores were evidence that Cook had undergone such excitement.
There is, however, an almost universal agreement that the disease is essentially the result of toxaemia or poisoning, and that acquired or inherited syphilitic infection is an important predisposing factor.
As to the exciting causes nothing is known beyond the fact that certain forms of disease, closely resembling delusional insanity, are apparently associated or caused by chronic alcoholism or occur as a sequel to syphilitic infection.
A similar and analogous condition is presented by incidence of general paralysis after a previous syphilitic infection.
For some time after the first outburst of the disease, sexual intercourse with the infected does not seem to have been suspected as the source and means by which the syphilitic contagion was propagated.
Paris, where two leper hospitals existed when syphilis began; but the syphilitic patients were not sent to them, but to other houses specially hired for the purpose.
Auricular fibrillation may occur in hearts which are suffering from valvular lesions, especially mitral stenosis, and may occur in syphilitic hearts, in various sclerotic conditions of the heart, and in hyperthyroidism.
While a real atheroma generally causes a reduction in diastolic blood pressure, or at least but slight increase, he has found in syphilitic cases with arteriosclerosis a high diastolic pressure.
High blood pressure due to syphilitic conditions may be greatly improved by the proper treatment, although some one or more blood vessels are likely to have been seriously damaged.
Of course, in syphilitic sclerosis large doses of iodids are indicated and are valuable.
It has been stated that iodids are of no value except in syphilitic arteriosclerosis, but iodids in small doses are stimulant to the thyroid gland, and the thyroid secretes a vasodilating substance.
A mucous patch appeared on one tonsil as well as further syphilitic papules from which spirochetes were obtained.
A report by an independent observer seemed to indicate that Mon-Arsone does not have the sterilizing action on syphilitic lesions which it is usually believed arsphenamine exercises.
They are the best of all remedies in Rachitis, non-union of fractures, Osteomalacia andSyphilitic Periostitis.
Anti-Syphilitic Compound (Sweeny) This preparation also is made by or under the direction of the same Dr.
Albert Keidel Twenty cases were chosen at random from the syphilitic patients attending the clinic.
Clinically we were unable to detect any influence of either or both these compounds on syphilitic lesions, although each of them was of the variety which heals in a week or ten days under salvarsan treatment.
The recommendation: “Your specification of Brom-I-Phos in the treatment of Syphilitic cases will immediately prove beneficial to the patient” is not supported by evidence.
Yet Alice Paul and I found we had been taking baths in one of the tubs here, in which thissyphilitic child, an incurable, who has his eyes bandaged all the time, is also bathed.
The syphilitic woman has been in that room seven months.
This child and two others share a ward with a syphilitic child of three or four years, whose mother refused to have it at home.
Although this lesion is usually solitary, we sometimes find it multiple, especially when it is of syphilitic origin.
The results in cases of cicatricial and syphilitic strictures are more favourable.
Syphilis only plays the part of a diathetic state profoundly affecting the maternal constitution at the time of dentine development; while these teeth may be due to secondary results of syphilis, they do not demonstrate syphilitic heredity.
Like the bacillus of tuberculosis, the syphilitic germ attacks every structure and organ of the body.
If both parents were syphilitic at or before the time of conception, the probability that the disease will be transmitted, and in a severe form, is much increased.
Syphilitic strictures are usually single, and so, as a rule, are strictures of malignant origin.
They say that this form of the disease occurs most frequently in lying-in asylums or foundling hospitals, and that it has been supposed to depend on a syphilitic taint.
Syphilitic ulcers and syphilitic cicatrices of the stomach have been described, without sufficient proof as to their being syphilitic in origin.
With the amyloid change there may be associated syphilitic gummata, or the liver may be more or less advanced in fatty degeneration or in cirrhosis.
The best local application to the edges of the pharyngeal syphilitic ulcers is the solid cupric sulphate.
The non-septic or chronic is developed usually in the first third of foetal life, and is generallysyphilitic in origin.
The result is more favorable in tuberculous growths in children andsyphilitic tumors in adults.
In malaria, syphilitic or gouty patients, constitutional treatment must be given for those diseases before the neuralgia will be better.
Not taking into account references in Roman and Grecian mythology, the old Syrian cuneiform epic Izdebar and the “papyrus Ebers,” we find the first reference to syphilitic disease in Indian literature of the Brahman period (800 B.
The finding of undoubted syphilitic bone lesions in skeletons of the most remote historic periods is undisputed evidence of the antiquity of syphilis.
Syphilitic poison, small-pox, and strong drink will annihilate all these tribes sooner than gunpowder.
Ulcers may form in the mouth or neck of the uterus, and, omitting cancerous ulcers and those of a syphilitic character, which are considered elsewhere, may be classified as Granular and Follicular.
It is therefore necessary that the coverings should be securely fastened at the neck, and that the room be one which can be quickly filled with pure air This bath is used in cutaneous, rheumatic, and syphilitic disorders.
Syphilitic and other ulcerations may so destroy the tissues as to form a urinary fistula.
Either form may be due tosyphilitic taints, excessive sexual indulgence, accidents of pregnancy, or organic diseases of the womb.
In older children, improper diet, irritants, debility of the digestive functions, or hereditary syphilitic taint, disorder the blood and induce local inflammation.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "syphilitic" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
