SYPHILIS:  A REVIEW OF THE RECENT LITERATURE

The following review covers the literature on syphilis for 1934 and the first six months of 1935. A few of the more important papers appearing in 1933 have also been cited, particularly when necessary for the sake of continuity. In view of the large number of titles involved (the "Quarterly Cumulative Index Medicus" for 1934 lists 932 titles under the heading syphilis alone, not including those listed under drugs, organs, Spirochaeta pallida and diseases such as aortitis, neurosyphilis, dementia paralytica and tabes dorsalis), it has been necessary to exercise a rather rigid selection. Except for one important article with clinical applications, almost all reference to the serodiagnosis of syphilis has been omitted. In the field of experimental syphilis relatively few articles have been mentioned. In the more purely clinical field preference has been given to articles in the English and American literature, though I believe that the more important German