The Prevention of Venereal Diseases in Sweden

The Prevention of Venereal Diseases

Diseases. By Otto May, M.A., M.D., M.R.C.P. Pp. 240. London : Oxford Medical Publications. 1918. Price 7s. 6d. net. During this time of national appreciation of the urgency of the prevention and treatment of venereal diseases Otto May's book appears opportunely. It presents the case fairly and in judicious language, and should be of service to anyone who is working in an attempt to combat vener...

Venereal Diseases

Venereal Diseases.

For many years in each of the Canadian provinces, the law has required that any person suffering from or suspected to be suffering from a venereal disease shall place himself under the care of a physician, and it has been the duty of that physician to report such cases to the Provincial Department of Health. It was not until 1944, however, that, as the result of a recommendation of the Dominion...

The Venereal Diseases

In the first edition of this book the author took special care ' to keep the practical problems to the foreThey have been so kept in this edition also. The essential additions are penicillin treatment, Reiter's syndrome and massive arsenotherapy. The book in spite of its small size contains many original observations. Random samples are : (1) Gonorrhoea in the male is usually contracted from a ...

Prophylaxis in the venereal diseases.

With the world -wide rise in both gonorrhea a nd syphilis in the face of the existence of s pecific curative m eas ures a nd of demonstra ted hi ghly successful public h ealth progra ms , a nd in spite of experi ence with and success in the u se of proph ylaxis , paI'ticula rly under conditions of social stress in two world wars, it see ms appropria te to a ssess again the ro le of prophylaxis ...