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SYPHILIS lias been so much discussed and its cause and pathology have been miiade so clear within the last ten years that tlhe treatment has been -revolutionized, and it has becom-le necessary to focus our newly acquired know- ledge, avoiding rash generalizations on the one liand and an] undue conservatism on the other.The field is already so large that it cannot be surveyed satisfactorily by any single observer, and the Royal Society of Medicine has done vwisely, therefore, iin clloosing several Fellows to open this *discussion and in allotting to each of them a separate plot.To me has fallen the consideration of moderni methods of treatment, partly, perhaps, becauise I am engaged in general surgery, and so lhave no special bias towards any particular plan of treatmlienit, partly because, for some years past, I hlave kept one or two beds in mny male and femiale wards at St. Bartholomewv's Hospital for the especial purpose of comparing the relative value of the new methods of treatment.AMy colleagues at the hospital have placed mlie under an obligation by allowing Mr. J. E. H. Roberts to collate the results of the cases of syphilis whiclh they have treated, whiilst Mr. Roberts himself hlas done excelleint service in bringing forw'ard the cases upon the -preselnt occasion.The pathological department-of the hospital, too, under the abl'e superintendenice of Dr. F. W. Andrewes and Dr. Mervyn H. Gordon, has given ulistintedl help in

ON THE TREATMENT OF SYPHILIS