CRITICAL TREATMENT PROBLEMS IN TODAY'S SYPHILOLOGY

Abstract

I have selected four topics for this presentation from a field of almost unlimited possibilities. As is my custom, knowing my failings, I apologize at the outset for a certain schoolmasterly didacticism of presentation, which is of the word only, and not inspired by ignorance of the possibilities of error in dogmatic statement. I should like to stimulate thought and create a discussion rather than make final pronouncements on current problems. I shall accordingly consider recent developments in the control of infectiousness by organized and socialized treatment, which is, in essence, the management of early syphilis; the problem of bismuth; the prevention and control of the two most threatening aspects of late syphilis, disease of the heart and of the nervous system; and smoother treatment. THE CONTROL OF SYPHILIS BY TREATMENT OF THE INFECTIOUS One of the disservices which