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In Medicine there was in 1936 the Surgeon General of the U. S. Public Health Service, Dr. Thomas Parran Jr., the great syphilologist who this year got syphilis on the radio for the first time.

From Time Magazine Archive

Dr. Morales, a syphilologist, is most concerned with preventive medicine.

From Time Magazine Archive

But, on the whole, they furnish no proof at all, and no syphilologist, he concludes, has ever succeeded in demonstrating that syphilis was known in antiquity.

From Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society by Ellis, Havelock