SYPHILIS AS A CURE.

Syphilis cure posters.

The development of syphilis cures profoundly shaped disease discourses and health promotion materials such as posters (above). The left poster contrasts the ancient history of syphilis with its modern curability. The right poster highlights the effectiveness of the new cure, promising favourable outcomes for those who are cured and further disability for those who are not cured. The new curabil...

Tests of Cure in Treated Early and Latent Syphilis.

To show accurately and statistically the end results of therapy of a large number of cases of syphilis treated with penicillin is unfortunately hardly possible in Great Britain, where a patient is free to come and go as he wishes, because of the natural tendency to default from long observation. The best that can be done is to collect and evaluate one's experiences after following for many year...

Observations on the Natural or Spontaneous Cure of Syphilis

Introducing a Newborn Baby with Congenital Syphilis

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A cure at last? Penicillin's unintended consequences on syphilis control, 1944-1964.

In 1928, Alexander Fleming discovered the mould Penicillum notatum, setting the stage for the development of an entirely new syphilis cure. Initial problems with cultivation and isolation waylaid the research until it was taken on by the Oxford team of Howard Florey and Ernst Boris Chain. The first patient was treated in 1943 and within 12 months over 10 000 early syphilis patients had been tre...