To the characteristics of syphilitic phenomena preceding neurolues

When looking at the various manifestations of syphilis in its primary and secondary periods, the old syphilidologists noted that in individual patients they proceed differently: while in some patients the secondary period, for example, is characterized by a profuse roseless, papular or pustular rash, which is often preceded by a vigorous prodromal period of fever, in others it proceeds very sluggishly, The secondary period is characterized by an abundant rosellar, papular or pustular rash, which is often preceded by a violent prodromal period with fever, while in others it runs very sluggish, the rash is barely noticed or absent at all (so called lues sine exantheniate). Comparing then the manifestations of the secondary period with the further course of lues, many syphilidologists have come to the conclusion that a more or less violent manifestation of the primary and secondary periods of the disease exempts the patient from lesions of the nervous system, and vice versa, having mild skin manifestations during these periods are candidates for tabes and progressive paralysis.