The Rationale of Malaria Therapy in Late Localized Syphilis with Particular Reference to General Paralysis of the Insane
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Sir,?At the discussion following an address read before the Medical Society for the Study of Venereal Diseases, Colonel Burke (1931) remarked that what was needed in modern syphilology was a little more imagination and a little less bowing before tradition and the consecrated teaching of the arid textbook. The present writer quotes these words both as apology and excuse for the following theoretical considerations.
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دوره 82 شماره
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تاریخ انتشار 1947