…That are meticulously examined in the analysis laboratory…

“Fate, that counts so much in the life of mankind, had in store for our lives – directed towards studying the dermo-syphilis speciality from the lecture halls – the opportunity to practice in a rather exotic environment with a special, large clientele, in which the afflictions of syphilis were extraordinarily abundant. There were many cases of those malignant, corrosive, mutilating lesions that we had only seen on some occasion in the University Clinic and many times in book illustrations and on the plastic exhibits in the anatomical museums.

The peculiarity was that these were patients who, until then, had never been exposed to the impurities caused by contact with or the insertion of mercury, in whom the syphilis was completely free to develop without being held back by therapeutic brakes that would restrict its devastation”.