Venereal Disease in Pepys's Diary.

Nature of Samuel Pepys's "wind colic".

The abdominal trouble that is most commonly referred to in Pepys's Diary is what he called "the wind colic." This is generally thought to have been renal colic because (a) he was found at necropsy to have a nest of stones in his left kidney, (b) he passed stones after attacks of colic at least once, and (c) he had had the famous operation for stone in the bladder just before the start of the Di...

Social aspects of venereal disease. I. Sociological determinants of venereal disease.

Venereal disease education and a selected group of American college students.

Education is considered to be an important factor in the control and possible eradication of venereal diseases. A study was undertaken to discover what effect education had had on a selected group of university students so as to determine suitable avenues for future educational programmes. Many of the schools attended by the students had issued information on venereal diseases; most students co...

Comparing Time-Use Estimates of Two Different Time Diary Methods

Objectives: Time-use has become an important field of research in social and medical sciences. Time diary is the most popular method for measuring time-use that has 2 different methods of administration including yesterday and tomorrow diary. The present study aimed to compare these methods of measuring time-use.  Methods: This cross-sectional comparative study was conducted on 256 under 5-yea...

Social aspects of venereal disease. II. Relationship of personality to other sociological determinants of venereal disease.

With increasing recognition of venereal infection as a behavioural disease, considerable interest has been focused on the relationship of various psychosocial parameters to these diseases. Eysenck's (Eysenck and Eysenck, 1964) refinement of the personality inventory has provided a useful tool for obtaining quantitative indicators of one such parameterpersonality. The personality of venereal dis...