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

  • Robson, H. N.
Date:
1911
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Credit: Sexual disease and its medical prevention / by H.N. Robson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    sequence of our troops being sent abroad in a diseased condition, regardless of the effects upon the health of the community. During the South African War, some of my friends were in medical charge of regiments which were not fit for service on arrival in Cape Town, and had to be kept in camps in order to recover their health. In the past few years syphilis has become so rampant amongst the natives in Cape Colony and Uganda, that it is engagingthe serious attention of the local authorities. En passant I might add that, in Australia, I was told that a visit from a squadron of the Royal Navy had also been a visitation. It has often been my intention to write a book dealing with the somewhat unique experiences of so much travel, even if it is necessary to leave out many of the most interesting proofs of my state- ments, and only to give the deductions drawn from them. For various reasons there has been delay in doing so, and one was that further research of a more scientific character was required in order to prove the truths of venereal prophylaxis; and these are now forthcoming, as a result of the painstaking experiments of Metchnikoff in Paris.
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