New York Medical College - Fleuroscope Yearbook (Valhalla, NY)

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SOME HISTORICAL AND SOCIAL ASPECTS OF SYPHILIS THE most important aspect of syphilis is its eradication. Though it has been known and written about for centuries, it is only now, in the past few years that rational steps have been taken in an attempt to decrease its incidence. And even now, there is much opposition to be overcome, much prudishness to educate, before we can reach the point where syphilis can be added to the list of rare diseases. ln the United States, in which syphilis has been reportable since l920, there have been 35,000 more cases of syphilis reported than of Scarlet Fever, 79,000 more than Tuberculosis, 500,000 more than Diphtheria, three times as much syphilis as Smallpox and five times as much syphilis as Typhoid Fever. In the Scandinavian Countries, where anti-syphilis regulation is most ad- vanced, there are only 1,600 new cases a year. The United States have 500,000 new cases a year and 7,000,000 new and old cases currently in progress. It was only three years ago that a newspaper in one of our larger cities shocked the public by printing the Word syphilis in one of its columns. Last year a large radio corporation refused to permit the Department of Health to lecture on venereal disease over its network. The campaign unremittingly driven by Doctor Thomas Parran, Ir., Surgeon-General of the United States Public Health Service is attempting to make the word syphilis represent a serious and urgent problem rather than a shameful punishment for sin. We have Christmas seals advertising the treatment of Tuberculosis and subway posters urging early treatment of Cancer. Should we, as scientists, whose work lies in the healing of the sick give less prominence to a disease which is more widely prevalent than either of these, and which is the cause of un- told death and misery every year, simply because it is contracted through sexual relations? In any effort to eradicate a disease it is not only necessary to educate the public. We who are to do this work must know all of its aspects. We cannot here attempt to cover the medical or public health phases of sYphilis. No aspect of medical history presents such interest, no problem is ramified with as much claim and counterclaim, accusation and counteraccusation as the disease syphilis. ORIGIN OF SYPHILIS Even today with many books and articles, displaying over-whelming erudition, the origin of syphilis is still a moot question. In general, partisan- ship on the question of the origin divides itself into two belligerent camps. One group upholds the European beginnings of the disease while the other gives America the dubious distinction of first mothering it. The Eurasion School labors under the difficulty that there was no accurate description of the disease manifestations before the first epidemic occurred at Naples in 1496. Isolated reference to genital sores, ulcerations, eruptions, etc., which can be attributed to syphilis can also be ascribed to various other diseases, One hundred sixty-four