It might be supposed that the most enlightened areas in the country would be the freest from these diseases and that the places where no enlightenment had been undertaken would be hotbeds of disease. He had examined in this respect sixteen counties which had not undertaken any propaganda for ten years; they comprised about one-thrd of the country. Actually the number of service infections in th...

THRmE SEEMS to have been a certain amount of despondency on the early history of syphilis in England. Several authorities have remarked what little record there is of venereal disease in the sixteenth century in England compared with continental Europe. Astrucl names only four British medical authors on venereal disease before 1600 compared with two hundred other European sources, and even then...

to illustrate those forms of venereal disease which are of frequent occurrence and of practical importance, only those which are rarely seen and are chiefly of interest to the specialist being omitted. They are reproductions of water-colour drawings taken from actual cases, and a brief outline of the clinical history of the patient is given with each. In addition, 116 pages at the end of the wo...

Venereal diseases are still a common prohlem in today's world. Even though tremendous advances are heing made in medicine and large budgets are heing spent to control sexually transmitted diseases (STD), especially in western countries, these diseases are still yet very common, and today AIDS has been added to the threats posed hy STD to human life. The status of syphilis was evaluated in Iran ...