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A Review of the Recent Literature

HERMAN BEERMAN, M.D.; LESLIE NICHOLAS, M.D.; WILLIAM T. FORD, M.D.; MINERVA S. BUERK, M.D.

AMA Arch Intern Med. 1951;87(3):424-468.

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TREATMENT OF EARLY SYPHILIS

The appropriate treatment for early syphilis is slowly becoming apparent. Obviously, penicillin is the basis for all acceptable regimens, and, in spite of the successful five year follow-up study by Mahoney and his group¹¹⁴ of the first four patients treated for syphilis with penicillin, there are still numerous complicating factors which have as yet prevented a standardized therapy for early syphilis. The trend toward ambulatory therapy has been discussed above. Observation on whether or not combined therapy is desirable have also been mentioned above and will be discussed further in certain reports, chiefly from abroad. Failures are being analyzed more fully than in previous years, and many of the new publications deal with this phase of the subject.

One of the basic tenets of syphilology is the dictum "Do not treat until a diagnosis has been established." In the modern trend . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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PHILADELPHIA With the Collaboration of Frank W. Reynolds, M.D., and T. Guthe, M.D., Geneva, Switzerland

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