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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In medicine, the doctrine that there is but one venereal virus producing chancre, as opposed to dualism, which teaches that there are two forms of venereal ulcer, due to the action of distinct specific poisons, one being followed by syphilis and the other not.

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