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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    Great care must be taken that the preparation is free from water, and both vaseline and lanolin must be anhydrous, so as to be in this essential condition, A prescription based on the above and written in simple English would read as follows :— Calomel, . , . Four drachms. Vaseline, . . . One drachm and a quarter. Lanolin, . . . Seven drachms. The vaseline and lanolin must be anhydrous or free from water. On 1st May 1907 an Austrian army order was issued for the prevention of venereal diseases, and carried out, with the result that there was a de- crease of 62 per cent, in the amount of disease in some of the regiments. The French War Office has issued a notice {vide Appendix B) on the prevention of venereal diseases in the army, and ordered the soldiers to be provided with boxes containing 5 grammes or drachm of the ointment. It is to be hoped that the British and American Army Medical Services will follow suit,especially as the British army has for years been a byword for disease in Europe, owing to the sad results of middle-class domination in