Principles and Practice of Chemotherapy: With Special Reference to the Specific and General Treatment of Syphilis

The: chemotherapy and general treatment of syphilis is here dealt with in considerable detail, because of the great practical importance of the subject, and because the greatest advance in this new field of therapeutic science has been made in the treatment of syphilis. It is true that most advance has been made in the treatment of syphilis, relapsing fever, framboesia tropica and other spirochetal infections, in trypanosomiasis, leishmaniasis, schistosomiasis, piroplasmosis, malaria, amoebic and other protozoal and metazoal infections but some real progress, with practical applications, has also been made in the great and important field of bacterial diseases, and especially when chemotherapy is employed for the treatment of local as well as of systemic infections. Chemotherapy commands a large share of attention and effort in medical research to-day, and this volume is of service to both the investigator and the practising physician.