Eminent venereologists. 1. Albert Neisser.

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...

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...

Neisser and neisserian principles in venereology.

I value very highly the honour of having been invited to give the opening address at this centenary celebration of Neisser's birth, but I am very acutely conscious of my defects as an historian and hope that members of the distinguished company here to-night will fill the gaps that are inevitable in my story, because only with your help will the Osler Club honour worthily the memory of a man wh...

WillIAM HIRST , ULRIC NEISSER , AND ELIZABETH SPELKE

.Common wisdom has it that "you can't do two things at once," but people do combine activities all the time. They walk and talk, eat and listen, drive and think. When two things are done simultaneously, must one or both suffer? Do the tasks interfere with each other? Must one of them be done unconsciously? Are they somehow fused? Questions like these are often answered on the basis of assumptio...

Albert Fry