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In 1921, Dr. Alexander (Aleksander) Glueck (1884-1925) from Sarajevo, Bosnia, presented to the congress of the German Society of Dermatology (Deutsche Dermatologische Gesellschaft) in Hamburg statistical evidence taken from Bosnian cases that non-venereal “endemic syphilis” (bejel) was definitely different to “sporadic syphilis.” He based his argumentation in particular on the clinical evidence that so-called metalues (general paresis, paralysis) never occurred in “endemic” cases. Thus, he provided a new argument for the differentiation of venereal and non-venereal treponematoses, while all doubt regarding the exclusively syphilitic nature of general paresis had been eliminated in 1913, after Noguchi and Moore had demonstrated link between nervous diseases and the bacterium.
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Fuchs, B. (2016). Škerljevo, Frenjak, Syphilis: Constructing the Ottoman Origin of Not Sexually Transmitted Venereal Disease in Austria and Hungary, 1815-1921. In: Vögele, J., Knöll, S., Noack, T. (eds) Epidemien und Pandemien in historischer Perspektive. Edition Centaurus – Neuere Medizin- und Wissenschaftsgeschichte. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-13875-2_4
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