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THEODORE ROSENTHAL, M.D.

Arch Derm Syphilol. 1939;40(1):59-66.

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Public health recognition of syphilis as an epidemic disease is of relatively recent origin. The precise epidemiology of syphilis naturally could not be established before the discovery of the spirochete and of the serologic test for syphilis, both of which were made in the early years of the present century.

Medical publications since the return of Columbus' voyagers have, however, described epidemics of disease which in the light of present knowledge are realized to have been epidemics of syphilis.¹ These outbreaks have been given different names according to the geographic localities in which they occurred.

Many of these descriptions were amazingly accurate, not only as to clinical symptoms but in the account of the sequence of infection.

It is interesting and indeed profitable to reflect on epidemics which appeared suddenly in communities which had never before witnessed such diseases and to read of the manner in which infection was . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Director, Bureau of Social Hygiene, Department of Health NEW YORK

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