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"The development of the
concept of syphilis as a specific disease is thus incomplete in
principle, involved as it is in subsequent discoveries and new features
of pathology, microbiology, and epidemiology. In the course of time,
the character of the concept has changed from the mystical, through the
empirical and generally pathogenetical, to the mainly etiological. This
transformation has generated a rich fund of fresh detail, and many
details of the original theory were lost in the process. So we are
currently learning and teaching very little, if anything at all, about
the dependence of syphilis upon climate, season, or the general
constitution of the patient. Yet earlier writings contain many such
observations. As the concept of syphilis changed, however, new problems
arouse and new fields of knowledge were established, so that nothing,
here was really completed" - .Ludwik Fleck, Genesis and Development of
a Scientific Fact, 1979: 19.
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