venereal diseases
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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
The modern medicine which France introduced has all but wiped out the malaria, typhus, typhoid and venereal diseases which once plagued the Moslems.
From Time Magazine Archive
State provision of hygienic preventative and curative means are to be given free to those in danger from infection as well as to all suffering from venereal diseases.
From Women's Wild Oats Essays on the Re-fixing of Moral Standards by Hartley, C. Gasquoine (Catherine Gasquoine)
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