Excerpt from Guy's Hospital Reports, Vol. 9 I would rather have been content with the simple report Of our cases than have prefaced them with these remarks, but have thought it absolutely necessary to do so in order to afford an explanation of the apparently remarkable fact, that the subject before us, taken as a whole, is a modern one, a fact which might be used, as it has already been, as an argument against its truth. The explanation, I say, is necessary, as affording the clue to the previous want Of knowledge and the modern scepticism. I would therefore insist, in limine, in reference to this subject, that the whole of the modern theories have been mainly in the direction of discovering a wider extent Of influence for the venereal virus, and have not, as some have supposed, tended to the establishment of a syphilitic cause for various well-known internal diseases. The modern doctrine simply maintains that the internal organs may be affected equally with the external; that not only the cranium, but the brain within it, or the nerves; not only the muscles Of the limbs and tongue, but the heart; not only the pharynx, but the oesophagus; not only the larynx, but the trachea, bronchi, and lungs; also the liver, spleen, and other viscera. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.