Year: 1955
Type: article
Abstract: The sufferer from venereal disease phobia, unfortunately seen so frequently nowadays (Rogerson, 1951), had, according to Richard Wiseman (1676), his predecessor in the second half of the 17th century. Apparently at that time the fear of syphilitic infection was widespread, but unlike today, there was then some justification for such a fear. Wiseman himself, for example, complained in his treatise on gonorrhoea that the treatment of venereal diseases is the most imployment of our profession, the diseases of these parts being most frequently gotten by the most predominant vice of the age . Wiseman, after describing the Degrees and Symptoms of the lues venerea, says:
Source: Sexually Transmitted Infections
DOI: 10.1136/sti.31.3.190
Author: A. Fessler
Language: English
Subfield: History
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2000931386