Salvarsan, the first partially organic antimicrobial drug in medical history, was effective against spirochaetes only and was primarily used to cure syphilis.
Antibiotic treatment can cure syphilis, but cannot reverse late-stage damage from the disease.
The use of drugs to cure syphilis, he says, not only does not cure, but also causes locomotor ataxia.
There are no home remedies or over-the-counter drugs that will cure syphilis.
Because it is hard for penicillin G to get into these areas of the body, a single shot of penicillin - which will usually cure early syphilis - is not enough to cure neurosyphilis.
Antibiotic treatment can cure syphilis.
At any stage of the disease, antibiotics work well to cure syphilis.
This would put money in the surgeon's pocket, because he was allowed to make a charge for venereal treatment, but eventually it meant lost men: nothing cured syphilis.
A course of drugs may cure gonorrhea, syphilis, chlamydia or trichomoniasis, but a new exposure can start a new infection.
Finbar Scanlon's notion of deliberately infecting someone with malaria in order to cure syphilis was a known medical procedure of the period--though not nearly so common or popular as the various mecury-based "cures."