Improved method of transvenous liver biopsy.

She was treated with Triplopen (benethamine and procaine penicillin with benzyl penicillin sodium) 1-2 megaunits intramuscularly daily for ten days. Two weeks after treatment she could drink alcohol without adverse effect. The lymphadenopathy resolved within three weeks. At six months her Wassermann test result was negative and she had had no recurrence of the pain with alcohol. Her regular consort was treated for early latent syphilis but had no history of alcohol-induced pain.