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IT is generally agreed that probability of cure in syphilis can only be assumed if, during five years after treatment, there have appeared no signs, clinical or pathological, of relapse or progression. Penicillin was first used in the treatment of syphilis as recently as 1943, and it is now known that the doses originally used were inadequate. We cannot, therefore, begin to estimate the value of penicillin as an agent for the permanent cure of syphilis.
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MARSHALL, J. Penicillin in the Treatment of Syphilis. Nature 156, 769–772 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1038/156769a0
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