Abstract
The prevention of syphilis is a major problem of social medicine; and its prevention is closely inter locked with the efficacy of treatments available. For this reason it is surely appropriate in this con text to examine new sources of information with respect to its therapeutic control as a pre-requisite to consideration of other methods of eliminating the disease. Experience of syphilis therapy in the Army during the late war provides unique materials for assessing therapies in current use, and it is the aim of this communication to assess their value. During the first phase of the war, Army medicine relied exclusively on long-term arsenotherapy with bismuth. Later a certain number of cases was treated by means of short-term mapharside with bismuth. In the last phase penicillin treatment replaced or supplemented the use of arsenicals for a trial period pending the outcome of experience. In all, we are in a position to examine the results of eight procedures which we specify more fully below (part 5):
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