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MASSIVE ARSENOTHERAPY OF SYPHILIS BY THE CONTINUOUS INTRAVENOUS DRIP METHODPRELIMINARY REPORT ON TWO HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-ONE PATIENTS TREATED WITH AN ARSENOXIDE PREPARATION
PRATS G. FLORENCIO, M.D.;
LUIS INFANTE VARAS, M.D.;
ESTEBAN HARASZTI, M.D.
Arch Derm Syphilol. 1942;45(5):885-893.
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The enormous interest which has been aroused by efforts to achieve a rapid cure of syphilis warrants recapitulation of the experiences in Chile.
PATIENTS TREATED
Up to Oct. 20, 1941, 233 patients were treated by us. This publication deals at length with only the first 111, whose period of observation extended up to seven months.
Of the 111 patients, 70 were males and 41 females.
The age of the patients varied from 15 to 40 years, 2 being 15 years of age, 36 between 16 and 20, 57 between 21 and 30 and 16 between 31 and 40.
Fifty-four patients were addicted to the use of alcohol, in different degrees, and 68 used tobacco.
Seventy patients gave a previous history of venereal disease, 39 of gonorrhea, 19 of chancroid and 12 of lymphogranuloma venereum.
Chronic alcoholism of severe degree was present in 19 patients. Sixteen patients had chronic complaints of
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Author Affiliations
SANTIAGO, CHILE
Footnotes
Translation by Dr. William Leifer, New York.
The material presented here was communicated to the Medical Society of Chile, in joint session with the Chilean Society of Dermatosyphilology, on Oct. 17, 1941.
Dr. F. Prats G., is Chief of Section C of the Hospital San Luis de Santiago; Dr. L. I. Varas is Chief of the Section of Clinical Control, and Dr. E. Haraszti is from the Bacteriologic Institute of Chile.
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