Excerpt from American Journal of Syphilis, Gonorrhea and Venereal Diseases, 1921, Vol. 5 From time to time those engaged in the practice of medicine en counter that form of syphilis to which the adjective malignant is added to characterize its fulgurant and precocious symptoms which represent the comparatively benign course of the disease raised to the nth power as it were. Or it may be a peculiar perver sity in relapses in spite of the most vigorous and intelligent treat ment. Again, the involvement of the nervous system to the practical exclusion of the other tissue planes has caused many to assume that there are special strains of the infective organism having a definite selective predilection thereto. In the minds of many of those who have thoroughly studied the subject and who have had abundant opportunity to observe these phenomena the question is still in abeyance. 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.