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Paperback, [EAN: 9781130512793], RareBooksClub.com, RareBooksClub.com, Book, [PU: RareBooksClub.com], RareBooksClub.com, This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1867 Excerpt: ...by them and carried through. The opinion of Dr. Boeck with regard to the therapeutical action of syphilisation does not accord with that of MM. Auzias-Turenne and Sperino, who believe that the syphilitic poison is absorbed, and that the repeated inoculation of it produces a saturation of the system with syphilis, so that an immunity to the effects of the virus is at length acquired. Dr. Btieek considers that the introduction of the syphilitic A virus into the organism creates a diathesis, and is followed by a certain train of symptoms which succeed to each other with great regularity, but are usually prolonged over a considerable period of time. The syphilitic diathesis, when once established, cannot, he thinks, be increased or intensified by the further inoculation of virulent matter, but the continued insertion of this, by stimulating the existing disease, enables it to pass through its regular course, and therefore to complete the series of phenomena which follow the infection of the system by syphilis, in a far shorter time than if left to itself, or if subjected to any other method of treatment. Relapses and the occurrence of the so-called tertiary disease are therefore, he states, rarely found after this treatment; whilst the continued introduction of syphilitic matter into the system destroys, in a varying period of time, the receptivity of the patient, and ultimately produces a local as well as a general immunity to the disease. This condition of immunity to the local action of the virus is gradually lost after the inoculations are discontinued; but the general immunity is very constant, and lasts as long as the duration of the diathesis--frequently throughout the life of the patient. The method pursued by Dr. Boeck is as follows:--At the commenceme..., 265543, General Surgery, 227199, Surgery, 265542, Medicine, 173514, Medical Books, 1000, Subjects, 283155, Books<