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Syphilitic holes in your face, or what passed for a cosmetic skin graft in 1900?

From The Verge • Aug. 11, 2014

Syphilitic fissures are met with as long, narrow, deep clefts, or as stellate or sinous cracks in the substance of the tongue.

From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Miles, Alexander

C. For Syphilitic Patients, should also be followed in these cases.

From Valere Aude Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regeneration by Dechmann, Louis

Syphilitic sequestra are heavier and denser than normal bone, because sclerosis usually precedes death of the bone.

From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Thomson, Alexis

Syphilitic lesions are liable to be mistaken for actinomycosis, all the more that in both diseases improvement follows the administration of iodides.

From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Thomson, Alexis