Symptoms

There will be a hoarseness, as well as a history of an infection. Possibly there will be an ulcer that can be observed through the laryngoscope. There will be mucous patches on the mouth, the hair will fall out, and there will be more or less skin eruption. It is possible that such cases have been treated for syphilis. If so, they have taken arsenic; the mouth trouble or any trouble with the skin or mucous membrane will probably be due to the treatment.

Treatment

The life must be corrected. The diet must be made perfect. For the first month of treatment the patient is to be kept on a fast, and fresh, uncooked fruit and vegetables. The first week may be a fast. If the case is very severe, the fast should be of two weeks' duration. The second week a diet of fruit may be given; and the third and fourth weeks there may be had a dinner of vegetables and meat every other day, with a combination salad, and for the alternate dinners a starch in the place of meat. In all cases of laryngeal disease there should be given a hot bath every night before going to bed. If, however, bathing in the evening causes nervousness, it may be taken in the morning, followed with cold sponge-bathing; and the baths are to be followed with dry towel-rubbing. The same treatment should be given laryngeal syphilis that is recommended for constitutional syphilis; and constitutional syphilis is to be treated the same as all other diseases; namely, by correcting the life of the patient.

From my standpoint, most of these cases are drug diseases, brought on from treating so-called syphilis--a disease the patient never has had.