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HOWARD FOX, M.D.

Arch Derm Syphilol. 1929;20(6):820-834.

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The disease known as yaws or frambesia tropica is of great economic importance in certain tropical regions where it is endemic. It is also an important disease on account of its relationship to syphilis. An extraordinary opportunity is now offered for Americans to study yaws in the Republic of Haiti, a country which is close at hand and which is temporarily under the protection of the United States. Yaws is still extremely prevalent in the interior of the country, though it is steadily diminishing through the untiring efforts of the medical officers of the United States Navy.

An idea of the extent of the disease is given by the annual report of the director of public health, Commander K. C. Melhorn, who stated that during the past year nearly 178,000 patients were treated with neoarsphenamine, bismuth, etc., for "treponematosis." The latter term, it may be said, is used to include . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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Submitted for publication, Aug. 22, 1929.

Read before the Section on Dermatology and Syphilology at the Eightieth Annual Session of the American Medical Association, Portland, Ore., July 11, 1929.

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