The treatment of secondary, constitutional, and confirmed syphilis, by a safe and successful method : with numerous cases, and clinical observations ... / by Langston Parker.

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1850
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    Case 21. Chronic disease of the throat, and loss of hair—Failure of ordinary treatments—Cure by the Baths. Symptoms, A commercial gentleman, aged 34, was sent to me by his surgeon, for my opinion respecting his throat, which had been affected with syphi- litic ulceration for several months, and had resisted the ordinary means of cure, or relapsed when medicines were discontinued. This pa- tient had suffered originally from several small superficial sores on the penis. Some time after the healing of which his throat became dry and inflamed, and his hair began to come off. When I first saw this gentleman the throat was intensely red, the tonsils enlarged, and their surface covered with several ash-coloured ulcers; the membrane of the nostrils was also very red, and he could not breathe easily through them; his sense of smell was much impaired, and he had entirely lost his hair, and was obliged to wear a wig. I could not learn the exact mode of treatment that had