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From Chaos to Order

L. W. HARRISON, C.B., D.S.O., M.B., CH.B., F.R.C.P.E.

AMA Arch Derm. 1956;73(5):441-454.

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As a student in the days when the statutes of most hospitals forbade them to admit early cases of venereal disease, I saw only one; it was a syphilitic chancre shown us sub rosa by an assistant surgeon. As a full private in the Volunteer Medical Staff Corps of that time, I saw in a small ward in the Royal Victoria Hospital, Netley, a number of soldiers whose faces were literally rotting away with tertiary syphilis. Those were all the cases of V. D. I saw when I was a student in the mid-nineties. During the South Africa War of 1899-1902, I was mostly with units in the field, and I saw only one case; it was in my sick corporal who suddenly lost the bridge of his nose—he had made no complaint.

In 1903, when I started work in India, the only treatment given to a patient with . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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Footnotes
Reprinted from Medicine Illustrated Vol. 3, No. 7 and 8, July and August, 1949.

Based, by permission, on an address delivered before the Royal Medical Society, Edinburgh, in 1946 during their two-hundred-and-tenth session.

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