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Swift-Ellis treatment

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The Swift-Ellis treatment was a medical therapy developed by physician Homer Fordyce Swift and his colleague Arthur W.M. Ellis. This treatment was used for paresis, a condition related to cerebrospinal syphilis. The Swift-Ellis treatment was widely employed until it was eventually replaced by more effective therapies. Swift was a physician who focused on treating syphilis and other infectious diseases.1

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