Salt Lake Telegram | 1930-03-06 | Page 14 | Paresis Must be Tackled Early If it is to be Conquered

T 6 I Paresis Mu Must DAILY Be HEALTH Tackled ki SERVICE d' d darly Early arly i 6 I- I I If It Is to Be Conquered A j By DR MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Edior Journal of the American Amerian Medical Association and of Hygeia Hygeia Hy Hy- geia geis the Health Magazine The condition that used to be known as softening softening- of ot the brain brainand brainand bran branand and later general paralysis and paresis is caused b by the tho organism that causes During the thelast thelast thelast last quarter of or a I century scientific medicine determined this fact act and since tho th fact was determined has been leen making special efforts to get at some sonic control onlo of or the condition at least to the extent that tho tim carl early manifestations of ot 8 syphilis arc are controlled con con- trolled by proper treatment When hen harsan or was discovered it began to bo used promptly as mercury and iodides have hae long lont been used in Sn th the th treatment treatment treat treat- ment merit of oC various manifestations of ot this disease All 1 sorts orts of oC methods were v to get s-et tho the medicine Into the bod body so that It I would overcome overcome over over- come como tho ravages ra of or the organism Later modified preparations of ot were discovered by investigators In the University o Wisconsin n. and these o ha been used In th the treatment of oC such c cases e eOl for Ol seven seen years cars Moreover cr the tho G German erman investigator tor tot Ya Wagner ner neron von on Jaure 6 discoVered discovered ered cred that tho tim production of ot fc fever r rby by inoculation with wih malaria or by other methods also had an n important import Import- nut ant effect In arresting tho TIo of or tin tho disease an aul tints this thit method is lr tb followed In Ill modern medIal rued med kai kal Ial practice As may w wP wall ll b be b 9 imagined all dl of oC methods of ot treatment treatment are arc ae radical rad rad- ll ical g j L. L z I 4 have ha e harmful complications On tho the other hand the disease caso itself isel Isso is isso so 50 definitely progressive and ad fatal and its is manifestations so o serious serous that any method of ot treatment that will 1 yield results Is worthy of ot a at atrial t trial ria I Tho The ovi evidence ence now noW coming from various Institutions for tho the care of ot the insane insano indicates that both the treatment and ld the malarial treatment yield good re results ro- ro ii In 11 a considerable percentage e eor of or cases Sometimes the disease is arrested for long periods of oC time Ii In tho the majority of eases cases there is a remission of borne omo of the s symptoms and man many nany of oC tho the sick Ick recover sufficiently sufficiently mCclenty mC- mC clenty to return to work In this disease disease as in all al other se senious serious serious se- se rious conditions the factor of oC greatest great great- beat beat- est eitt ft Importance Is 15 early eary diagnosis When a a. a disease Is in its Is incipient stage It may be caught and treated effectively whereas later a after fter actEr much organic change chane has in the tho ues t tissues little can be bo dour