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venereal diseases

Cultural  
  1. Sexually transmitted diseases; these diseases are named after Venus, the Roman goddess of love.


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The historian AJP Taylor said cattily that free treatment for venereal diseases was “the only innovation in ‘welfare’ directly attributable to the first world war”.

From The Guardian Nov. 11, 2018

The boy, a brilliant student, attended schools in Vienna, including Sigmund Freud’s old “gymnasium,” and summered in Sofia, Bulgaria, where his father specialized in treating venereal diseases before penicillin.

From New York Times Jan. 31, 2015

World War II fervor and the excitement over penicillin, then a scarce, new drug, contributed to the rush to test this promising medicine against venereal diseases that commonly afflicted soldiers.

From New York Times Sep. 14, 2011

At the present time State legislation is pending for the diagnosis, treatment and control of venereal diseases.

From Time Magazine Archive

Rosenbaum attempts to solve the problem of the existence of syphilis and other venereal diseases in the remote past.

From A Problem in Modern Ethics being an inquiry into the phenomenon of sexual inversion, addressed especially to Medical Psychologists and Jurists by John Addington Symonds

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