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Sex and syphilis
Before antibiotics, syphilis unleashed centuries of misery, countered by desperate but largely useless remedies. With the spread of syphilis on the rise, it’s worth remembering what our forebears suffered.
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What is hysteria?
Hysteria has long been associated with fanciful myths, but its history reveals how it has been used to control women’s behaviour and bodies
Catalogue
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Recent progress in the serum diagnosis of syphilis / Howard Fox.
Fox, Howard, 1873-1947.Date: 1910- Archives and manuscripts
Lab Lore - Volume 3
Date: 1968-1970Reference: WF/M/PB/02/03/03Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Books
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Acute cases of Hodgkin's disease (lymphadenoma) and the diagnosis of this disease from syphilis, tuberculosis, and atypical leukaemia / by F. Parkes Weber.
Weber, Frederick Parkes, 1863-1962.Date: [1907]- Books
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Observations on syphilis, and on inoculation as the means of diagnosis in ulcers and discharges invading the genital organs : comprising also a brief outline of the ancient and modern treatment of syphilis, and pointing to new views and to a new method of treating that disease / by John Crowch Christophers.
Christophers, John Crowch, 1813-1883.Date: 1853- Books
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Syphilis of the nervous system : a clinical study chiefly in regard to diagnosis and treatment : founded on the cases of Prof. Wm. H. Van Buren, M.D., and those of the author / by E.L. Keyes.
Keyes, E. L. (Edward Lawrence), 1843-1924.Date: 1870