Re: Mersham Mental Hospital ... Syphilis


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>> Was Mersham Mental Hospital used as a facility for treating syphilis
>during
>> and after WW1? and what sort of treatment would have been afforded at that
>
>1. Few British mental hospitals routinely treated
>infectious diseases (possibly none). E.g. they
>lacked diagnostic laboratories.
>2. Salvarsan was the best treatment for syphilis
>approx. 1920.
But the final stage of syphilis, GPI, general paralysis of rhe insane
would cause infected people to die in asylums.
--
Eve McLaughlin

Author of the McLaughlin Guides for family historians
Secretary Bucks Genealogical Society
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