These men are employed to examine the women inmates of the houses to see if they are suffering from diseases of a venereal nature that might sow the seed of death in thousands of men.
In general they appeared to be modest; although there was no want of those of a different stamp; and as we had yet some venereal complaints on board, I took all possible care to prevent the disorder being communicated to them.
Derues, confounded by the evidence, asserted that the youth died of indigestion and venereal disease.
In 1914, before war was declared, the words "venereal diseases" were relegated to the advertisements of quacks and patent medicines.
That more than seventy-five per cent of the American soldiers in France had been infected with venereal diseases.
So too, the employment of mercury in venereal diseases leads to many new forms of disease.
So inextricably indeed has venereal disease caught mankind in its clutches that even the best doctors have been forced to admit that, so long as adultery and prostitution continue, there is no hope for the human race.
The notion that the breath of persons having the venereal disease was infectious seems to have prevailed as late as the reign of William and Mary.
Although it may be uncommon, one may be infected by these diseases after an innocent kiss, a cut finger, by sitting on a privy contaminated by a person suffering from venereal disease, by the use of contaminated linen, etc.
There are three kinds of venereal disease, which we will describe in a few words.
At the maximum point of voluptuous feeling the woman experiences something analogous to the venereal orgasm of the man.
It is obvious that such "file firing" greatly increases the danger of venereal infection, since a single infected person is sufficient to contaminate innumerable clients (even without the woman herself becoming infected).
Honest women, infected accidentally or by their husbands, suffer martyrdom when they are sent to the venereal divisions of hospitals.
Europeans have introduced among them so much alcohol, venereal disease and other plagues, that they promptly perish from want of the power of resistance.
Absolutely cold women, incapable of the least voluptuous sensation are as fruitful as those who have pronounced venereal orgasms.
In the latter case, especially in man, flirtation may even lead to venereal orgasm without coitus, and even without any manipulations which resemble it.
They demand from the adversaries of regulation proof of a diminution in venereal disease when regulation was not in force.
At the most it leads to a certain amount of nervous and mental exhaustion by abuse of the facility of thus procuring a venereal orgasm.
In the future, however, we may hope that the law may be improved for the benefit of humanity, for this would be one of the most efficacious means of combating venereal disease, and hence avoiding much misfortune for families and children.
There is no meaner crime than for a young man to acquire venereal disease by reason of weakness of will, and then pass it on to an innocent girl and perhaps to unborn children.
Physicians say that in spite of so-called modern prophylaxis and supposed cures, syphilis is still alarmingly common, and other venereal diseases are rampant.
Sufferers from venereal diseases should not attempt to beget children till they have been given a clean bill of health.
I examined the body to ascertain if there was any trace of venereal disease.
There was in my judgment no venerealtaint about him at the time.
Savage, of Gloucester Place, London, who had attended Cook for four years, also negatived the suggestion that he was suffering from syphilitic symptoms, or that he had any venereal taint about him.
When the Australian troops were quartered near Cairo--than which there are few more immoral cities in the world--venereal cases were frequent, in spite of the admonitions of the combatant officers and of the medical staff.
Those who fell victims to loose women and contracted venereal diseases--and it is beyond a doubt that most of the women who follow an army are diseased--had to be withdrawn from their positions and sent back to the bases to hospitals.
Much harm has been done in the past by the action of Benefit Societies in withholding recognition and treatment from venereal disease.
The financial cost of venereal disease to-day is so vast as to be beyond calculation.
That they can be thus cut short--far more easily than consumption, to say nothing of cancer--is the fact which makes it possible to hope for a conquest over venereal disease.
There is no period when venereal diseases flourish so exuberantly as in war time, and we shall have a sad harvest to gather here when the War is over.
The increase of venereal disease during the Great War has been noted alike in Germany, France, and England.
We see here the vindication of those who for years have been teaching that the first essential in dealing with venereal disease is popular enlightenment.
A few years ago any attempt to control venereal disease was considered by many to be almost impious.
So that any influence which tends to diminishvenereal disease increases the well-being of the whole community.
We may estimate from this small example how vast must be the total loss of working power due to venereal disease.
Clinical Lecturer on Venereal Diseases in the Medical Department of the University of the City of New York, etc.
Students' Manual ofVenereal Diseases, being the University Lectures delivered at Charity Hospital, B.
Perhaps I ought to say that there is not a line of what I have written that deals with the subject of venereal diseases, any of them.
It is the least dangerous of the venereal diseases, but unfortunately, relatively the one which occurs most seldom.
It is caused by a venereal bacillus, the gonococcus.
Many a seemingly innocent flirtation, begun with a kiss, has ended in shame and disgrace, in loss of social standing and position, venereal disease, or even death.
It is the curse of individual young manhood because of the venereal diseases it spreads.
All the state and medical regulation in the world will not protect him from the venereal diseases he is so apt to acquire by such indulgence.
The consequences of venereal infection administered to unborn children by their parents are too horrible to allow of any risk being taken.
Regulation and medical control only arrest in a degree the spread of venereal diseases to which prostitution gives rise.
He has been at Had'em, and came home by Clapham; said of one who has caught the venereal disease.
To pay a bill at sight; to be ready at all times for the venereal act.
He was sent out a sacrifice, and came home a burnt offering; a saying of seamen who have caught the venereal disease abroad.
Docked smack smooth; one who has suffered an amputation of his penis from a venereal complaint.
The apartments for the foul or venereal patients in St. Bartholomew's hospital, are called Job's ward.
He broke his shins against Covent Garden rails; he caught thevenereal disorder.
To burn your poker; to catch the venereal disease.
A physician or surgeon, particularly those who cure the venereal disease.
Said originally to mean one whose skin or hair had fallen off from some disease, chiefly the venereal one; but now commonly used by persons speaking of themselves: as, there stood poor pill garlick: i.
She's a prime piece; she is very skilful in thevenereal act.
The dried gut of a sheep, worn by men in the act of coition, to prevent venereal infection; said to have been invented by one colonel Cundum.
All the different forms of venereal disease, chronic rheumatism, chronic indigestion, etc.
The venereal taints and germs, however, are living things which grow and multiply until the body has been completely permeated by them.
Chapter IX The Effects of Suppression of Venereal Diseases Another good illustration of suppression may be found in the allopathic treatment of venereal diseases.
They create conditions in the system infinitely worse than the venereal diseases themselves.
These chemical tests are supposed to reveal with certainty the presence of venereal taints in the body,--at least, the public is left under this impression.
Nature to rid the system through these skin diseases of scrofulous, venereal and psoric taints?
Venereal diseases in the acute inflammatory stages are easily and completely curable by natural methods of living and of treatment.
The foregoing statement has nothing to do with the moral aspects involved in acquiringvenereal diseases.
Venereal diseases treated and cured by natural methods during the acute inflammatory stages are never followed by any chronic after-effects or secondary and tertiary manifestations whatsoever.
Venereal diseases treated and cured by natural methods are never followed by chronic after-effects.
If the blood is poisoned through overeating and faulty food combinations, or with scrofulous, venereal or psoriatic poisons, the tonsils are called upon, along with other organs, to eliminate these morbid taints.
These diseases are very uncommon among clergymen and are less common in Ireland than in any other country in the world, which would serve to confirm the opinion that the venereal disease is a prominent factor in their causation.
It is certain that what is considered the more severe of these venereal diseases may be acquired quite innocently.
The most important factor of all is, however, the contraction of venereal disease, especially of that form known as syphilis.
A very great change has come over the attitude of the medical profession towards the so-called venereal diseases in recent years.
Increased secretion of mucus in the vagina or uterus withoutvenereal desire or venereal infection.
From the absorption of the matter from venereal ulcers and suppurating bones.
In the absorption of venereal matter the usual methods of cure in syphilis must be administered, as in Class II.
As when a patient is persuaded he has the itch, or venereal disease, of which he has no symptom, and becomes mad from the pain this idea occasions.
Increased discharge of mucus from the urethra or prostrate gland withoutvenereal desire, or venereal infection.
Venereal infection received by the penis is very liable to affect the throat with ulcers.
He expresses the opinion that "The release of sterilized individuals with feeble inhibitions or anti-social tendencies is the equivalent to the creation of so-many new and virulent foci of venereal diseases and promiscuity.
These questions have already been covered to some extent by the Report of the Venereal Diseases Committee, and in any case would involve too wide a field of investigation for the present inquiry.
A defective woman, from the fact of her being sterilized and incapable of bearing children, would be more prone to illicit intercourse, to adopt a life of prostitution, and to spread venereal disease.
Across the way from the manor was a field which was utilized as a tent hospital for venereal diseases.
ONE of the First of this Class is the venereal Disease, with which the pestilential Venom does in a very familiar Manner unite it self.
Yes, and I should like to tell you what it was; but before I do so I must ask you if you know what thevenereal disease is?
An inveterate leucorrhoea is not exactly a venereal disease, and I have heard people in London say that it was rarely contagious.
