https://vdarchive.newmedialab.cuny.edu/items/browse?tag=clinic&output=atom2024-03-29T09:50:51+00:00Omekahttps://vdarchive.newmedialab.cuny.edu/items/show/420Know For Sure]]>2015-02-25T13:05:49+00:00
This film begins with the story of a young Italian-American couple whose baby is stillborn due to syphilis. It also tells the story of a young man who contracts the illness from a brothel. The film explains the effects of syphilis, emphasizes the importance of treatment, and warns against quacks. (Click on the link below to download from OPA.)
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"V.D. (Venereal Diseases) Can Be Cured : Go to Your Doctor or Clinic Today"]]>2013-11-08T10:11:32+00:00
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"War Front of Home Front, America Needs You Healthy!"
"Clinics give free : Blood Tests : Medicine : Advice : Pamphlets : These are given confidentially : Any one who has been exposed should go at once to a good doctor or a good clinic : By certain tests : The presence of syphilis or gonorrhea germs can be discovered : These germs can be just as easily recognized as any criminal whose picture is in the Rogues' Gallery"
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National Library of Medicine, Images from the History of Medicine, purl.
]]>https://vdarchive.newmedialab.cuny.edu/items/show/305Survey Graphic giving an update on the state of syphilis control in the US.]]>2013-09-27T08:54:59+00:00
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This poster features a venereal disease clinic with a swastika on the roof. It advises servicemen to use prophylaxis.]]>2013-08-22T07:47:00+00:00
National Archives, Record Group 112: Records of the Office of the Surgeon General (Army), Series: Posters Promoting Venereal Disease Prevention and the Prevention of Other Diseases, circa 1942-1944.
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This poster features a newsboy and informs viewers that gonorrhea and syphilis can be treated quickly.]]>2015-07-18T08:51:50+00:00
"Gonorrhea can be cured in a few hours : Syphilis can be treated in a few days : Visit Your Doctor of Clinic : There's a Clinic Near You"
This poster features a newsboy and informs viewers that gonorrhea and syphilis can be treated quickly.
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National Archives, Record Group 112: Records of the Office of the Surgeon General (Army), Series: Posters Promoting Venereal Disease Prevention and the Prevention of Other Diseases, circa 1942-1944.
American Social Health Association Records (1905-2005), University of Minnesota, Social Welfare History Archives, United States Government and Military VD Graphic posters, 1940s Box Oversize flat 1, http://purl.umn.edu/62467.
]]>https://vdarchive.newmedialab.cuny.edu/items/show/80Three Counties Against Syphilis]]>
(Click on the link below to download from OPA.)]]>2013-07-22T07:43:44+00:00
This film documents a mobile trailer clinic program. Though the program only served African Americans in rural Georgia, it is highlighted as a success in syphilis control that could be applied to any population in any part of the nation.
(Click on the link below to download from OPA.)
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This pamphlet includes short entires about syphilis in alphabetical order. It was included in National Social Hygiene Day Program Kits.]]>2015-02-25T13:05:50+00:00
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"The A-B-C of Syphilis"
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"What the average person should know about a very dangerous and prevalent disease"
This pamphlet includes short entires about syphilis in alphabetical order. It was included in National Social Hygiene Day Program Kits.
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This chart shows how many cases of syphilis were discovered by Wassermann exams compared to other means in different medical divisions. ]]>2013-07-18T07:24:12+00:00
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"Importance of the Blood Test as Part of the Patient Examination"
"How syphilis was discovered in 1000 consecutive cases referred to the syphilis clinic by other divisions of the Johns Hopkins Dispensary : Data from Albert Keidel, M.D., Archives of Dermotology and Syphilology, Vol. 25, p. 470, 1932."
This chart shows how many cases of syphilis were discovered by Wassermann exams compared to other means in different medical divisions.
National Archives, 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, Box 640.
]]>https://vdarchive.newmedialab.cuny.edu/items/show/33white only : 501 East 3rd St. : Shoemaker colored only : 1041 Cutter St. : General Hospital : Burnet Ave : County Clinics : St. Simon COmmunity House : Woodlawn Ohio : Junior Hall : Addyston Ohio : North College Hill School colored only : Steelesub : 2. After having your blood tested have the doctor fill out the reporting slip and mail to the department of health city hall Cintio : This will in no way affect your employment with the Works Progress Administration : This information will be kept confidential: Please Let Us Have Your Help!"
This poster urges WPA workers to visit their physician or a clinic to have a syphilis test. It emphasizes that the test is confidential and will not jeopardize employment with the WPA.]]>2015-02-25T13:49:29+00:00
"The Work Projects Administration is Cooperating in the National Campaign to Stamp Out Syphilis! : 1. You are asked to go to your private doctor for a blood test. If you cannot pay for this go to any of the following : City Clinics : Health Center : 212 West 12th St. : Union Bethel white only : 501 East 3rd St. : Shoemaker colored only : 1041 Cutter St. : General Hospital : Burnet Ave : County Clinics : St. Simon COmmunity House : Woodlawn Ohio : Junior Hall : Addyston Ohio : North College Hill School colored only : Steelesub : 2. After having your blood tested have the doctor fill out the reporting slip and mail to the department of health city hall Cintio : This will in no way affect your employment with the Works Progress Administration : This information will be kept confidential: Please Let Us Have Your Help!"
This poster urges WPA workers to visit their physician or a clinic to have a syphilis test. It emphasizes that the test is confidential and will not jeopardize employment with the WPA.
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Detail from an educational pamphlet by the USPHS on syphilis. This graphic summarizes the information included in the pamphlet about the cause, transmission, and treatment of syphilis. ]]>2015-07-18T10:11:08+00:00
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"Syphilis, Its Cause, Its Spread..Its Cure!" (Detail--Cause, Spread, Cure)
"About SYPHILIS..We know : 1. The Cause (Spirochetes) 2. How it is Spread 3. And How it May Be Cured"
Detail from an educational pamphlet by the USPHS on syphilis. This graphic summarizes the information included in the pamphlet about the cause, transmission, and treatment of syphilis.
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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"Find syphilis early. Serum from the first sore may reveal syphilis even before the blood test will show it."
Detail from an educational pamphlet by the USPHS on syphilis. One photograph shows a doctor talking to a patient. The other depicts the preparation of slides to identify samples positive for syphilis. ]]>2015-02-25T13:20:59+00:00
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"Syphilis, Its Cause, Its Spread..Its Cure!" (Detail--Doctor, Test)
"Self-treatment and the quack are useless in syphilis. See your doctor of local clinic for adequate treatment."
"Find syphilis early. Serum from the first sore may reveal syphilis even before the blood test will show it."
Detail from an educational pamphlet by the USPHS on syphilis. One photograph shows a doctor talking to a patient. The other depicts the preparation of slides to identify samples positive for syphilis.
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.