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her Experiences of the Treatment of Syphilis in the Army by the Intramuscular Administration of Mercury.
BY
SURGEON-MAJOR F. J. LAMBKIN, A.M.S.
in India.
e Army Medical Report for the year 1891 there appeared a paper by Success which I advocated the treatment of syphilis in the army by the of the muscular method, and expressed a hope that this treatment be given a methods by army medical officers. This trial has been given to it, more ally in India, with favourable results. In the last two Army Medical ts the Surgeon-General with Her Majesty's Forces says that this ment has been generally successful in that country, not only in the I treatment of the disease itself, but also it has lessened the admissions ospital for syphilis; meaning, that the admission rate, high as it was, have been still higher but for the treatment of the disease by the muscular method. This is very gratifying, and lends a hope that, with extended trials, further success may be looked for.
in my original paper the chief advantages which I claimed for giving The adran- iry by the above methods were —
1. Its chief advantage, and the one which stands out strongest, is, that by the Intramuscular method the soldier can be treated whilst out of hospital at his duty for that length of time over which it is absolutely necessary he should be, with any hope of curing the disease. This is nearly an impossibility to do with other modes of giving mercury.
2. The treatment is absolutely in the surgeon's own hands, and he knows for a certainty whether the patient gets his treatment
or not.
3. Mercury given hypodermically does not produce diarrhoea and
indigestion which it so often does when given internally.
4.
By this mode of treating syphilis the State becomes a distinct gainer, in that the time actually spent in hospital by the sgphilitic soldier is much lessened whilst the chances of his re-admission for the same is reduced to a minimum.
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claimed:
as far as my own practice is concerned, during the six years which have Success in
d since the publication of the abaye paper the Intramuscular method my hands.
ven me, and continues to give me, the very best results, in not only
g rid of the primary symptoms in a wonderfully short time, but also in ating further outbreaks of the disease, and in some cases, which I was
to observe for a lengthened period, probably curing the patient etely.
The plan of treatment which I originally recommended I still adhere to, Plan of
he soldier on first getting syphilis is kept under treatment in hospital treatment.
s long as any of the more active primary or secondary signs of the exist; when these disappear he is discharged to his duty and ordered end hospital on one day a week for the purpose of receiving further bent in the form of an injection. In the army there is no difficulty in that the men attend regularly, and they are taken away from their for not more than a few minutes a week, 11110)
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