Granuloma Genito-Inguinale
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, H^oryZn, 1 PCh'iC B'andSMcLeofJ in isgo ;!GaRG was first recognized by ,??n'. though '' described as 'serpiginous ulcera.,^90, jn British n^CI''e name was given to it. In first to dosrriK !?na? Conyers and Daniels were ?' fo-callod ffrnin ,?i condition as ' the lupoid form entity Then in ls<vf,a*Ion ' a"d as a distinct, disease Galloway, in England, reported a case as ulcerating granuloma of the pudenda. This was followed, in 1898, by Dempwolff in New Guinea, who described it as granuloma contagiosa, having seen it among the Papuans and the Melanesians. In 1899 Maitland in Madras gave this condition the name ' chronic venereal soresDonovan in 1905, also in Madras, described certain intracellular bodies in smears from a mouth lesion and considered them to be the causative organisms. In 1911, Jackson in Australia described a kind of ulceration in the genitals and the perineum occurring in the aborigines which he had been observing since 1882. He thought the condition to be a form of syphilis in the blacks and so called it 'black pox'. In 1913, Aragao and Vianna were the pioneers in using potassium antimony tartrate intravenously in the successful treatment of this disease having been encouraged to do so by their success with this drug in the treatment of cspundia. In the United States of America, the disease was first
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