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DR. SYDNEY LAIRD'S views on the subject of control and compulsion as a means of reducing the incidence of venereal diseases have already been presented by him to his colleagues in venereology. His expressions can be taken as a fair cross-section of specialist medical opinion. This book is a statement of facts and an appeal to the reader to apply the knowledge he can obtain in his reading to the task-his public duty-of helping to reduce the amount of venereal diseases. Elimination of the stigma attached to the diseases must accompany the newspaper and radio drive to increase the public knowledge of the subject. A short outline of the historical background precedes a simple explanation of the common signs, symptoms, and complications of gonorrhœa and syphilis. A typical case history illustrates the train of events which follow when an ignorant man is exposed to infection. The reviewer can vouch that the example chosen is no unlikely theoretical case.
Venereal Disease in Britain
By Sydney M. Laird. Pp. 80. (Harmondsworth and New York: Penguin Books, Ltd., 1943.) 9d. net.
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VENEREAL DISEASE IN BRITAIN. Nature 151, 683 (1943). https://doi.org/10.1038/151683a0
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