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Treatment Using Penicillin Alone and in Combination with Oxophenarsine Hydrochloride and with Bismuth

HERBERT M. LEAVITT, M.D.

Arch Derm Syphilol. 1947;56(2):233-243.

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ROUTINE examination of spinal fluids of all syphilitic patients admitted to the New Mexico Intensive Treatment Center has been a valuable and productive procedure. The Center opened its doors on Feb. 7, 1944, and during its first two years and three months of operation, a total of 1,722 patients was admitted for intensive treatment of syphilis. Positive reactions of the spinal fluid were discovered in 259 patients (14.5 per cent). The large majority of these patients had never had examinations of spinal fluid before, although many of them had received varying amounts of irregular routine antisyphilitic therapy.

The present report deals with the results which were obtained with penicillin in the treatment of 171 patients, all followed up for periods from three to eighteen months. This number of patients represents 74.0 per cent of the total number who were treated for neurosyphilis with penicillin more than three months before this . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Passed Assistant Surgeon (R), United States Public Health Service BROOKLYN

Footnotes
Statistical data prepared by Mary B. Wicker.

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