Dear Janet,

What about Diana's Lord John and Private Matter? I thought that is exactly the treatment used there, except I am not sure it was specified that it was neurosyphilis.

So this "approach" must have been known before the good doctor got the Nobel prize.

Whatever the short falls of modern medicine I am glad that this "treatment" is not widely used.

Maria

I will add another snippet, I happen to have on my desk an article from a Spanish chemotherapy medical journal.  The article is entitled Maimonides and the chemotherapy of infectious diseases.  Considering that he was alive in the twelfth and early thrteenth century, the list of chemotherapeutic agents cited and used by him is staggering.  There are also many treatises written by him on a number of infectious illnesses likewise, extraordinary with a great deal of clnical judgment behind them.

Elle