| 11. | Meningeal syphilis is a component of neurosyphilis, which usually occurs in the tertiary stage of syphilis.
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| 12. | Neurosyphilis was almost at the point being unheard of in the United States after penicillin therapy was introduced.
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| 13. | Therefore, neurosyphilis has once again been prevalent in societies with high HIV rates and limited access to penicillin.
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| 14. | Until the advent of penicillin in the 1940s, it was probably the most effective treatment for neurosyphilis available.
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| 15. | It has been speculated that he contracted neurosyphilis, which incidentally was the same illness that killed Lord Randolph Churchill.
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| 16. | :: There were some experiments with using malaria as a way to create fever and control syphilis, specifically neurosyphilis.
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| 17. | Neurosyphilis frequently occurrence then, and in 1917, Solomon and Southard co-authored a book on its diagnosis and treatment.
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| 18. | Syphilis can lie dormant for 10 to 20 years before progressing to neurosyphilis, but HIV may accelerate the rate of the progress.
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| 19. | He also described a symptom of neurosyphilis that affects the pupils of the eye, a condition known today as Argyll Robertson pupils.
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| 20. | Dr . Reese developed a particular interest in neurosyphilis, which, in the 1920s and 1930s, accounted for > 10 % of all psychiatric illnesses.
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