Treatment of paresis by inoculation with malaria

Publicado: 28 de diciembre de 2022

Resumen

lts increasing frequency and its inexorable advance constitute a reason for serious occupation on the part the specialist with the subject of paresis, or dementia paralytica. This is without doubt the form of syphilis the treatment of which has been pursued with a tenacity comparable only to the fruitlessness of the results. lt has been accepted up to the present time as an incontrovertible postulate that with rare exceptions, it is a disease progressing to fatality, causing death in a period of from three to five years. It is of the greatest interest, therefore, to take into consideration a method of procedure fitted to modify, the alarming prognostic formula which Leredde, an authority on the subject, announced in this way at a meeting of the Society of Medicine of Paris on the 23d of April of this year: "Paresis is the only form of nervous syphilis which opposes us en bloc".