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The venereal poison : a historic and genetic analysis of categories of sexually transmitted diseases, 1718-1850
2021-01-01
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During the first half of the eighteenth century, the monolithic term 'venereal disease' or lues venerea covered all signs and symptoms of diseases transmitted through sex. In 1766, Francis Balfour - a medical student at the University of Edinburgh - suggested that lues venerea could actually be divided into two separate diseases, each caused by a unique contagion: syphilis and gonorrhoea. This opened a debate that...
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- 4a669ec7-810d-56ed-bb5d-787750a96438
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- 10.5525/gla.thesis.82215