This essay examines the way in which medical consultations by letter were employed to seek and receive advice on venereal diseases in eighteenth-century France. Epistolary consultations from across eighteenth-century Europe have been used by historians for purposes that have included examining physician/patient power relationships; as a reflection of medical practice; to analyze perceptions of ...

In 1943 I was given the interesting but difficult task ofconducting the Joint Committee on Venereal Disease, on which were represented the Admiralty, War Office, Air Ministry, Ministry of Health, the Department of Health for Scotland, the Home Office, the Metropolitan Police, and the Canadian and United States Armies. I will refer later to the work of this Committee, which was confronted with a...

The article presents an outline of the development of world and Polish dermatology. The author points out to the first descriptions of skin diseases by ancient and medieval medical luminaries. The outline of the Polish dermatology is based on examples of doctors living in the 16(th) and 17(th) centuries. The first clinics of skin and venereal diseases in Poland appeared, like in other European ...

Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), previously known as venereal diseases (VD), were present among the populations of antiquity as well as during the Middle Ages. Clay tablets from Mesopotamia, Egyptian papyri, along with mythology, paintings of erotic scenes, and presence of prostitutes give sufficient information to assume that some form of urethral and vaginal discharge, and also herpes ge...