Homosexually-acquired venereal disease.

Homosexually-acquired venereal disease.

In a paper read in London to the Medical Society for the Study of Venereal Diseases in 1955 it was shown that of 1,000 consecutive patients with early syphilis and gonorrhoea, which were among those seen at the venereal diseases clinic of St. Mary's Hospital, London, in 1954, 84 (8-4 per cent.) admitted that they had been infected by homosexual contact (Jefferiss, 1956). A similar investigation...

Venereal disease in India.

Maj. Salaman said that he was glad that this question had been asked, because he hoped to obtain some non-genital organisms. If any member would let him know when such strains had been isolated, he would be very grateful. He was not very hopeful that an ophthalmic strain would be fundamentally different from the others, but strains obtained on aspiration of the joints would be exactly suitable ...

The Venereal Disease Problem

Prevention of Venereal Disease

Syphilology and Venereal Disease

The author acknowledges his indebtedness to the teachings of Fournier on syphilis, and to that of Finger and Neisser on gonorrhoea. Dr. Marshall also emphasizes the importance of both syphilis and gonorrhoea, " the oldest diseases which afflict mankind," as etiological factors in disease. The historical chapter is very interesting. It is clearly shown that syphilis was well known before the gre...