PENICILLIN IN VENEREAL DISEASES--2

Penicillin in Venereal Diseases

A discussion on penicillin therapy in venereal diseases in women.

Dr. Mary Michael Shaw said that up to date she had treated with penicillin about 100 women suffering from syphilis. The cases were not selected; some were not acute but had been given penicillin with the object of getting specimens of blood in order to ascertain the blood level of penicillin. Her results were not of any great value because she had not given penicillin by itself; every patient h...

Venereal Diseases

Venereal Diseases.

For many years in each of the Canadian provinces, the law has required that any person suffering from or suspected to be suffering from a venereal disease shall place himself under the care of a physician, and it has been the duty of that physician to report such cases to the Provincial Department of Health. It was not until 1944, however, that, as the result of a recommendation of the Dominion...

Venereal diseases.