Abstract
THIS layman's guide to the venereal diseases is wider in scope than the title suggests. It covers human anatomy, the venereal diseases and their treatment, their relation to sterility and their sociological implications. The descriptions of diseases are accurate, but as the author has gone to so much trouble to give the medical terms for the lesions he describes it would have been wiser to avoid all possibility of misinterpretation in the case of "condylomata" and have called them "condylomata lata". Many people have condylomata but only some are also syphilitic. Some purists might quibble at the guides to pronunciation given for treponema (treppon-nee-mar) and gumma (gum-mar).
Human Reproduction and Venereal Disease
By Dr. John Drew. Pp. 124. (London: Faber and Faber, Ltd., 1944.) 3s. 6d. net.
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Human Reproduction and Venereal Disease. Nature 154, 382 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1038/154382b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/154382b0