| Abstrakt: |
Congenital syphilis is common enough to require the direction of particular attention toward the establishment of the best methods of treatment. Treatment of the unborn child through active treatment of the mother, while at times successful, is often unsatisfactory. The various forms of treatment of the child can be limited to the use of inunctions of mercury or mercury administered by mouth, potassium iodide, mixtures of bismuth or the arsenical compounds. While many satisfactory results have been obtained with mixtures of bismuth, it seems from present knowledge that the arsenical compounds will probably continue to give the most uniformly satisfactory results. Administration of the arsenical compounds to a child, however, is difficult. Intramuscular injections are often accompanied by the formation of abscesses, and the ideal procedure of giving intravenous injections is hampered by the small size of the available veins in the infant and the difficulty of injection.Any method |
