Eminent Ecologist Award

Eminent venereologists 2. Benjamin Bell.

The late 18th century was a time ofsexual latitude, and genital discharge and ulceration following "impure coition" were common. Gonorrhoea virulenta and Lues venerea (syphilis) were recognised clinically, but they were thought to be the same disease. The natural history of syphilis itself was poorly understood, and little was known about other causes of genital ulceration. Surgeons, physicians...

Sanitarian becomes ecologist: the new environmental health.

Sensitivity to the environment demands new skills and attitudes Once again public health is on the move. After 40 years in which medical thinking has been dominated by the "magic bullet," therapeutic, model of health the pendulum has swung strongly in the direction of health promotion and preventive medicine. The reasons for this shift are complex. They include the prevailing political philosop...

The Frontier of Eminent Domain

Christopher Wolfe : That Eminent Tribunal

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Eminent venereologists 5: Carl Credé.

Carl Siegmund Franz Crede (fig 1) was born in Berlin in 1819 where his father, who was a French immigrant, held a senior appointment in the Ministry of Health and Education. After attending the Friedrich-Wilhelm Gymnasium, Crede studied medicine at the University of Berlin. He spent a semester at Heidelberg, where he met the famous obstetrician Franz Naegele, and graduated in 1842, with a thesi...