Social Diseases, Volume 21911 Vol. 3- contain Report of the 2d- annual meeting of the American federation for sex hygiene. |
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... Considering what preventive medicine has accomplished during the past hundred years , and particularly during the last fifteen years , by preventing the dis- tribution of contagia , is it not extraordinary that civilized so- ciety ...
... Considering what preventive medicine has accomplished during the past hundred years , and particularly during the last fifteen years , by preventing the dis- tribution of contagia , is it not extraordinary that civilized so- ciety ...
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... consider the various methods adopted in foreign countries and at home . It is a question whether or not we approach the task in the right spirit . In the first place are we not too much dominated by foreign ideas and methods which ...
... consider the various methods adopted in foreign countries and at home . It is a question whether or not we approach the task in the right spirit . In the first place are we not too much dominated by foreign ideas and methods which ...
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... consider , moreover , that prostitution is governed en- tirely by the law of supply and demand , and I do not see from to - night's talk what you of this Society are going to do with the existing practical subject of prostitution while ...
... consider , moreover , that prostitution is governed en- tirely by the law of supply and demand , and I do not see from to - night's talk what you of this Society are going to do with the existing practical subject of prostitution while ...
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... consider the estimate of the number of cases of syphilis and gonorrhea very moderate . Nobody knows precisely how many prosti- tutes there are in this , the second largest city in the world , but probably there are 20,000 , and possibly ...
... consider the estimate of the number of cases of syphilis and gonorrhea very moderate . Nobody knows precisely how many prosti- tutes there are in this , the second largest city in the world , but probably there are 20,000 , and possibly ...
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... law shall be made to protect the innocent rather than the guilty , that shall consider the good and pure better entitled to preservation than the evil and vile . If the consulting room of the physician is to be 12 Social Diseases.
... law shall be made to protect the innocent rather than the guilty , that shall consider the good and pure better entitled to preservation than the evil and vile . If the consulting room of the physician is to be 12 Social Diseases.
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Page 20 - Resolved, That it is the sense of this Board that the protection of the public health requires the early adoption of measures for the sanitary control of venereal diseases...
Page 6 - ... consequences to their wives and children. While there are other and contributory causes, the basic cause is ignorance. The keynote of this movement, then, was sounded as a campaign of education, a crusade against ignorance. This ignorance on the part of the public is not surprising in view of the fact that both social sentiment and professional ethics have always united to cover up and conceal...
Page 11 - As a danger to the public health, as a peril to the family, and as a menace to the 'vitality, health, and physical progress of the race, the venereal diseases are justly regarded as the greatest of modern plagues, and their prophylaxis the most pressing problem of preventive medicine that confronts us at the present day.
Page 5 - ... to-day by all the surviving members of the Committee of Fifteen. It is a remarkable fact that when we came together to investigate the problem, knowing very little about it — just about as much or as little as does the ordinary man or woman — the great majority of us were in favor of regulation, on the principle that it could do no harm and might do some good.
Page 31 - WHAT A MOTHER SHOULD TELL HER LITTLE GIRL. WHAT A FATHER SHOULD TELL His LITTLE BOY. WHAT A MOTHER SHOULD TELL HER DAUGHTER.
Page 20 - ... by the exercise of proper and vigilant medical inspection and control of all persons and things infected with or exposed to such diseases, and provide suitable places for the treatment and care of sick persons who cannot otherwise be provided for.
Page 6 - ... majority of men who marry have contracted disease, and that many are the bearers of contagion to the women they marry. We witness the effects in the women who suffer ill-health, sterility, mutilation of their bodies, and permanent invalidism. Society's only solicitude is that they suffer in silence. In addition, many of them are compelled to suffer the sight of their babies blinded at birth, children aborted or born with the mark of death upon them, or, if they survive, compelled to bear in their...
Page 56 - The sounds of a violin improve by use in the hands of an able artist, because the fibres of the wood at last contract habits of vibration conformed to harmonic relations. This is what gives such inestimable value to instruments that have belonged to great masters.
Page 24 - Tuberculosis is hereby declared to be an infectious and communicable disease, dangerous to the public health. It shall be the duty of every physician in the state of New York...
Page 14 - ... at them as did those worthy gentlemen who enacted this particular provision of the Page Law, but which will study the question from the medical standpoint, the social standpoint, the economic standpoint, and the sociological standpoint, and which will not alone prepare legislation, but will help the Government in administering whatever laws or ordinances may be found to be desirable.