Fighting Venereal Diseases: Scandinavian Legislation c.1800 to c.1950

The Venereal Disease Programme of the World Health Organization. The Simla Training Centre and Demonstration Area

Relapse in a Case of Early Syphilis Treated with Penicillin.

This paper concerns a relapse in a case of syphilis which had been treated with penicillin alone. The history of the methods of dosage with penicillin used in the army for the treatment of syphilis is summarized by Osmond (1949). He points out that as few as 600,000 units caused the speedy disappearance of early lesions, and seemed to effect a cure. Relapses, however, came quickly. The total do...

A Vegetable Extract Used as an Antigen for the Kahn Test: An Experimental Trial.

It has been shown that a substance with properties akin to those of syphilis " antigen " can be extracted from commercial soya bean flour (Stevenson, 1949). The most satisfactory method is the following: 25 g. commercial soya flour is extracted successively with 100, 75, 75, 75 ml. pure ether. The flour is then dried and weighed and extracted for one hour at 800 C. with 95 per cent. ethyl alcoh...

Newer antibiotics in the treatment of venereal diseases.

When the effectiveness of penicillin in the treatment of syphilis was first demonstrated, a group of the larger syphilis clinics throughout the U.S.A. coordinated their efforts, and the results were analysed by a central statistical unit. As a consequence, evaluation of the drug, at least in early syphilis, progressed so rapidly that the older methods of therapy became obsolete 4 or 5 years ago...

Anti-Venereal Measures in Denmark and Sweden.

As most of the substance of this paper is derived from the report of an official mission to certain Scandinavian countries to study their anti-venereal measures, it seems proper that I should say something about the events which led to our being sent there. In I936 there was published in America the report of a mission from New York to Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Great Britain to study the anti...