Venereal disease and the great.

نویسنده

  • A D Wright
چکیده

Venereal disease has been no respecter of persons and many notable figures have been afflicted in the past. Royal personages and politicians have enjoyed no immunity, and poets, musicians, writers, and artists longing for new experiences to inspire new works have ultimately had to face reality and publicity when complications arose in the form of stricture, tabes, insanity, or blindness with the whole world aware of their misfortunes. Soldiers and sailors with their extensive leisure and changing domiciles have always seemed to stray, but as they are expected to do so they have generally received adequate treatment with a better prospect of avoiding painful late consequences than is the case for civilians. Now things have been greatly changed by the impact of antibiotics, and the venereal history of the new great will become almost a secret in the future because the tell-tale 'lost nose', aneurysm, paralysis, insanity, or blindness will be no morc.

برای دانلود رایگان متن کامل این مقاله و بیش از 32 میلیون مقاله دیگر ابتدا ثبت نام کنید

ثبت نام

اگر عضو سایت هستید لطفا وارد حساب کاربری خود شوید

منابع مشابه

Venereal disease problem in Sweden to-day.

The venereal disease morbidity in Sweden to-day shows a strange stability in the number of reported cases. The frequency trends of the different diseases since 1919 show congruent variations. The position to-day is difficult to explain and a comparison on an international level would be of great interest. Since January 1, 1919, every physician diagnosing a new case of venereal disease in a cont...

متن کامل

Venereal Disease Imported by Mariners.

Over the years several investigations have been made into the nationality of patients attending the venereal diseases clinics of Great Britain by the British Cooperative Clinical Group (1956, 1963a, b). The results of these surveys are of special interest in inland areas where promiscuity is found especially in migrant immigrants, but at seaports peripatetic native and foreign mariners are equa...

متن کامل

The psychological aspects of venereal disease.

It does not require a great deal of wisdom to realize that a man who faithfully cohabitates with his legally betrothed wife stands a considerably smaller risk of contracting venereal infection than another who consorts on frequent occasions with little known partners. Hence, cases of marital infection excepted, the venereal disease specialist deals invariably with individuals who became infecte...

متن کامل

Students as special clinic patients.

Much has been said in recent years about the behaviour of young people in Great Britain and not least about their sexual behaviour. The rising incidences of venereal disease and illegitimate pregnancy have been quoted as indices of promiscuity. Little information is available on students' sexual behaviour. In this study a look has been taken at the Sheffield student population and an effort mad...

متن کامل

ذخیره در منابع من


  با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید

عنوان ژورنال:
  • The British journal of venereal diseases

دوره 47 4  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1971