The Control of Syphilis and Venereal Diseases

Atlas of Syphilis and the Venereal Diseases

to illustrate those forms of venereal disease which are of frequent occurrence and of practical importance, only those which are rarely seen and are chiefly of interest to the specialist being omitted. They are reproductions of water-colour drawings taken from actual cases, and a brief outline of the clinical history of the patient is given with each. In addition, 116 pages at the end of the wo...

A Manual of Syphilis and the Venereal Diseases

Treatment of Early Venereal Syphilis

Today, with the dawn of the space-age, there are few who would disagree with the remark of Professor Smelov (1956) at the First International Symposium on Venereal Diseases and Treponematoses in Washington, D.C., U.S.A., that "hardly any one doubts the curative power of penicillin against syphilis", or the opinion of Kinaqigil (1956) of Turkey expressed at the same meeting that penicillin is pr...

Venereal syphilis in tropical Africa.

A steady decline in the incidence of positive results to the Kahn test is reported in Malawian patients during the period 1968-75. Other studies have shown that the incidence of early and late syphilis in sub-Saharan Africa has dropped considerably over the past few decades. The number of reported cases of early syphilis in certain urban areas, however, appears to be high. It is suggested that ...

Chemotherapy and the venereal diseases.