Venereology--a backward look.

Venereology--a backward look.

A man of my age spends so much time looking backwards that it is dangerous to give him the opportunity of talking about it. To many people the past can be a dead bore. However, I gather that on the occasion of this anniversary some of you would like a brief account of some of the stresses and strains of earlier yearsso here it is. You must forgive me if the words 'I' and 'me' recur frequently. ...

A diploma in venereology.

The teaching of venereology.

It is very opportune at present to consider the teaching of venereology for this specialist branch of medicine has received formal recognition from two important bodies, the British Medical Association (by formation of a venereologist group), and the Ministry of Health and National Health Service. A circular from the Ministry of Health states emphatically that " the diagnosis and treatment of v...

Moulages in dermatology-venereology.

This early wax modeling was known as ‘Anatomica Plastica’, where minute details of the human anatomy were depicted by wax models. The next logical step was illustration of diseases by use of wax models (Patho-anatomica plastica) and wax models (moulages) were used in various medical specialities like surgery, obstetrics, ophthalmology etc but it was in dermatology that these reached heights of ...

Further progress in venereology.

(a) Penicillin.-Most significant developments have taken place in the field of antibiotics, especially with repository penicillins. The treatment, which used to consist of injections every 2 to 4 hours with aqueous penicillins, daily with penicillin in oil-beeswax, and sometimes once or twice weekly with procaine penicillin with aluminium monostearate, may now be achieved by a single or a few i...