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Title: The Massachusetts eclectic medical journal
Year: 1884 (1880s)
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Subjects: Medicine, Eclectic
Publisher: Boston : Lynde & Barrows
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
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cians who are familiar with the morphologyof the blood in syphilis. By microscopically inspecting the bloodof a syphilitic they make out a diagnosis of the disease at once,with a certitude unusual in human affairs. Besides this, theytell when the patient is really cured by noting the disappearancefrom the blood of the peculiarities of syphilitic blood. Indeed no , Massachusetts Eclectic Medical Journal, 263 other physical sign of therapeutic inspection in this disease ismore useful than that of the exploration of the blood by themicroscope. This may be denied by some ; but this denial notat all alters the facts of the diagnosis and treatment of syphilis bythe gentlemen referred to. Now, the point desired to be made here is that the use of thepreparation here named by syphilitics, known to be such byrational and physical signs (including microscopic inspection), hasbeen followed by the disappearance of the physical signs ofsyphilis, including those furnished by inspection of the blood.
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Fig. 1.—Rough Diagram of Syphilitic Blood Spores. Figure 1 is a rough diagram, and shows the blood of asyphilitic with the embryonal forms of the vegetative spores(Cryflta syphilitica), which are the dots seen in the interspacesbetween the red and white blood corpuscles. In the diagramthey are of course immovable, but in the blood just removed fromthe stream of a syphilitic, and viewed under a 1-16 inch first-class Tolles immersion objective, appear as auto-mobile globes,active with life, skurrying hither and thither with the ceaselessplaying motions of proto-plasmic life. They are highly refractivebodies, and when a little out of focus they are copper-colored. 264- Massachusetts Eclectic Medical journal. They differ from the spores of eczema, which are darker, almostblack and immobile. In old cases these spores are found in theprimary sore (with the mature plant), and in the secretions forthe most part. Occasionally the mycelial or fully-developedfilaments of the plant appear in th

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