Syphilis - a treatise on etiology, pathology, diagnosis, prognosis, prophylaxis, and treatment (1921) (14769859741)

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Title: Syphilis : a treatise on etiology, pathology, diagnosis, prognosis, prophylaxis, and treatment

Year: 1921 (1920s)

Authors: Hazen, H. H. (Henry Honeyman), b. 1879

Subjects: Syphilis Syphilis

Publisher: St. Louis : C.V. Mosby Co.

Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine

Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School

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e, but Simmonds^^^ and Schlesingerthink that the cyst formation is due to arrest of development ofsome of the epithelial tubules that give rise to the thymus.Warthin^*° has suggested that in some cases it is due to post-mortem softening of the gland. WieseP*^ has given a completebibliography of the subject and Oliver^*- has written a goodarticle. Pancreas.—Syphilis of the pancreas has already been dis-cussed. Testes and Ovaries.—Lesions of these organs have been dis-cussed elsewhere. Suprarenals.—Syphilitic lesions of the suprarenals have beenfound at autopsy, but the symptomatology is practically un-known. Cases have been reported by Esser,^*^ Kokubo,^**Vmogradoff,^^^ Simmonds^*® and others. In a late paper Simmondsstates that the most frequent pathologic change is the so-calledperihypernephritis syphilitica, the process being in the capsuleand associated with atrophy of the cortex. In addition gummataand necrotic areas frequently occur in the medulla. CONGENITAL SYPHILIS 445

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Fig. 138.—It is possible that syphilitic changes in the thymus may interfere with growth.(Collection of Drs. Fordyce and MacKee.) Pituitary.—Lancereaux^*^ states that the pituitary may beenlarged and indurated in congenital syphilis. Simmonds^*® wasable to collect ten cases from the literature, those of Simmonds,Schmidt, Chiari, Triboulet, Dalpy and Hardwick. Also it is 446 SYPHILIS

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