JSH, Vol. 23, No. 7 (Oct. 1937): 364 b. Accessible at Albert R. Mann Library, Cornell University, HEARTH, 2013. Originally appeared in St. Louis Post Dispatch.
This infographic presents the steps industry should take to help control syphilis among their employees and within the community. It is featured in the NSHD broadside.
This pictorial statistic shows the rates at which syphilis is detected via Wasserman exams when it is given routinely and only when the illness is suspected. The image is a graphic print for an image that appeared in Parran's 1937 book, Shadow on the Land.
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Papers of Dr. Thomas Parran, Jr., MD, Box 41, Folder 537, University of Pittsburgh Archive Service Center, Pittsburgh, PA.
American Social Health Association Records (1905-2005), University of Minnesota, Social Welfare History Archives, Venereal Disease Projects, Negro Project, VD Pamphlets for Negroes, Box 119, Folder 02, http://purl.umn.edu/111229.
These images are from a pamphlet created for African American audiences. It includes information about causes, symptoms, testing, treatment, and effects. While it does use the word "syphilis" a few times, it primarily uses the phrase "bad blood" to refer to the illness. One detail shows a woman in a doorway, one shows a woman getting blood drawn for a test.
American Social Health Association Records (1905-2005), University of Minnesota, Social Welfare History Archives, Venereal Disease Projects, Negro Project, VD Pamphlets for Negroes, Box 119, Folder 02, http://purl.umn.edu/111229.
National Archives, Record Group 44: Records of the Office of Government Reports, 1932-1947, Series: World War II Posters, compiled 1942-1945, http://research.archives.gov/description/514834.
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Detail from an educational pamphlet by the USPHS on syphilis. The photograph shows a physician using a syringe to inject treatment drugs into a patient's arm.]]>2013-07-18T07:05:45+00:00
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"Syphilis, Its Cause, Its Spread..Its Cure!" (Detail--Treatment)
"Thirty shots of an arsephenamine; forty shots of bismuth. For no other serious disease is there so sure a cure."
Detail from an educational pamphlet by the USPHS on syphilis. The photograph shows a physician using a syringe to inject treatment drugs into a patient's arm.
National Archives, Box 648, Record Group 69: Records of the Works Progress Administration, 1922-1944, Series: State Project Reports and Research Publications, compiled 1933-1943, documenting the period ca. 1605-1949.
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"The completed blood test. The milky solution on the right shows syphilis. THe clear solution means health."
Detail from an educational pamphlet by the USPHS on syphilis. One photograph shows a physician drawing blood from a patient. The second depicts a technician performing the blood test. ]]>2013-07-18T07:04:29+00:00
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"Syphilis, Its Cause, Its Spread..Its Cure!" (Detail--Blood Test)
"A bit of blood is carefully drawn from the arm for the blood test. It's as simple as a smallpox vaccination."
"The completed blood test. The milky solution on the right shows syphilis. THe clear solution means health."
Detail from an educational pamphlet by the USPHS on syphilis. One photograph shows a physician drawing blood from a patient. The second depicts a technician performing the blood test.
National Archives, Box 648, Record Group 69: Records of the Works Progress Administration, 1922-1944, Series: State Project Reports and Research Publications, compiled 1933-1943, documenting the period ca. 1605-1949.