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Title: The treatment of syphilis
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Baketel, Harrie Sheridan, 1872-
Subjects: Syphilis
Publisher: New York The Macmillan Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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ferred to theanterior aspect of the chest. The patients feel as if they had apain over the heart, but the pain in Dr. Thomas opinion, is ofsmall consequence and it has been very seldom necessary forhim to administer an opiate. The advantage of the subcutaneous administration of neosal-varsan over other methods is that it is unusually simple, is with-out danger, gives at least as good results as the others, and thereis practically no after-pain and no detention from business.Dr. Thomas believes that the action of the drug is prolonged forabout two weeks. He has injected several hundred patients inthis manner and has never had any serious after-effects andonly one of his patients has been compelled to go to bed. Inthis instance the temperature went to 1050 F. This patient wasin his secondaries with a malignant infection and the medicalattendant feels that the cause of the rise in temperature was dueto the liberation of many endotoxins following the administra-tion of the spirochetecide.
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' j£ 8 ^ -5 2 C3 73 o 3 CHAPTER IX THE METHODS OF EMPLOYING THE MERCURIALS AND IODIDES The Intramuscular Method of Injecting Mercury The intramuscular injection of the soluble or insoluble formsof mercury requires considerable care and should not be re-garded lightly. The favorite site for injection is about one inch from thecrease of each buttock and the parts must be sterilized, prefera-bly with tincture of iodin. Platinum needles of 20 gauge are best adapted for this work,especially when soluble preparations are being used. Theneedles should be two inches long, so that the mercury can bedeposited in the muscle and not in the fat or subcutaneous tissue.Careful examination of the needle should be made before eachinjection to ascertain any structural weakness. If a needle isbroken off in the gluteal region the parts must immediately belaid wide open and the part extracted, for needles in that sectionof the body are rapid travele

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