The Intravenous Administration of Mercury in Syphilis

Abstract

may be suffering from specific infection although no clue to it could be elicited in their history.The Wassermann reaction was positive and the sero-enzyme test for syphilis negative in 20 out of 115 cases, or 17.39 per cent. It is interesting to note that 9 cases of tuberculous condition, in Table 7 gave a positive Wassermann reaction which, though faint, was distinct. Tuberculosis is capable of giving a positive Wassermann reaction. If we subtract the 9 cases of tuberculosis in Table 7 and Case 161, cancer of the throat, we have left 10 cases which possibly might be syphilitic.