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To the Editor: It is instructive to see the vivid illustrations in the Images in Clinical Medicine series, especially Wong and Mihm's images of primary syphilis (Dec. 1 issue).¹

The photograph showing the hunterian chancre is superb. Also, Wong and Mihm have demonstrated classic histologic techniques with the hematoxylin-and-eosin staining and the spirochetes visualized with silver staining.

The evaluation of this disease would be enhanced, and an immediate diagnosis of a treatable disorder provided, if direct dark-field microscopy was performed on a serum specimen obtained directly from the edge of the chancre by touching a coverslip to the lesion and . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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