Sexual disease and its medical prevention / by H.N. Robson.

  • Robson, H. N.
Date:
1911
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    of my conviction that the remedy for venereal diseases was not legislation directed against one sex only, but prophylactic or preventive treatment by the individual without any legislation whatever. Hitherto the only plan for dealing with the evils of contagious disease was by legislation regulating prostitution, a plan unjust in itself inasmuch as it affected one sex only, and which provided a wide field for agitators and morbid purists of both sexes. Moreover, it has been proved to be ineffective, in consequence of so much disease arising from in- tercourse of a clandestine character, and it is a distasteful business to the doctors and the people concerned. On the other hand, it was difficult to find a method of prophylaxis of a scientific and practical nature, and when found it would incur the opposi- tion of certain elements of society, who would receive it in the same spirit as they received the scientific discovery that the earth was round, or the doctrine of Evolution. For six years I was in the “ Artists’ ” corps, and camped out with regulars at Aldershot and other places, and had several opportunities of learning the deplorable condition of our troops in regard to contagious disease.
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