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To: Michael.SF.
MANUAL OF SURGERY
BY
ALEXIS THOMSON, F.R.C.S.Ed.
1921
SYPHILIS
Syphilis is an infective disease due to the entrance into the body of a specific virus. It is nearly always communicated from one individual to another by contact infection, the discharge from a syphilitic lesion being the medium through which the virus is transmitted, and the seat of inoculation is almost invariably a surface covered by squamous epithelium. The disease was unknown in Europe before the year 1493, when it was introduced into Spain by Columbus' crew, who were infected in Haiti, where the disease had been endemic from time immemorial (Bloch).

13 posted on 01/14/2008 5:46:35 PM PST by nicmarlo (I hereby declare my support for Duncan Hunter. 1/10/08; late to the party, but I have arrived!)
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To: nicmarlo

thanks for the link.


41 posted on 01/14/2008 6:55:54 PM PST by HoosierHawk
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