Then and now: a vignette

The first issue of the British Journal of Venereal Diseases appeared in January 1925. It declared its aims and ideals, Colonel Harrison described the new clinic system, there were articles on the use of bismuth in the treatment of syphilis and even on the use of diathermy to treat gonorrhoea! An introduction was written by Sir Humphry Rolleston, President of the Royal College of Physicians (PRCP). He said that, until recent times, the study and management of venereal diseases were usually under the wing of surgeons and that physicians had ‘often stood afar off.’ But in many other countries syphilis had become an annexe of external medicine (dermatology) with associated journals, and he opined that the time was right for the British to have their own specialist journal. It was to confine itself to medical aspects of the diseases and not deal with associated moral issues, and the...
Source: Sexually Transmitted Infections - Category: Sexual Medicine Authors: Tags: Miscellaneous Source Type: research