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"Be Fit: Bureau of Social Hygiene, New York City: See Your Doctor : Be Examined : Have a Blood Test"]]>2013-11-08T09:04:33+00:00
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 650.
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"You Can Have A Healthy Baby : Ask your Doctor to give you a Careful Physical Examination including Blood Test as soon as you know a Baby is Coming."]]>2015-02-25T13:05:49+00:00
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"Love is essential, and mutual respect, common interests, and unselfish consideration are the foundations of love : Sexual abstinence before marriage for both man and woman is the only reliable safeguard for the welfare of the family : To be sure that both man and woman are physically fit, each should have a medical examination before marriage. The laws of several states now require such an examination"]]>2013-10-18T08:05:39+00:00
The poster promotes abstinence and medical exams before marriage. It is part of a larger poster series called "Youth and Life."
"Love is essential, and mutual respect, common interests, and unselfish consideration are the foundations of love : Sexual abstinence before marriage for both man and woman is the only reliable safeguard for the welfare of the family : To be sure that both man and woman are physically fit, each should have a medical examination before marriage. The laws of several states now require such an examination"
This graphic highlights the important steps in controlling TB and syphilis. It is from a reprint of Parran's article in Survey Graphic on syphilis, TB, and African Americans.
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This poster advises couples to get VD exams before marrying to ensure their happiness.]]>2015-07-18T08:58:06+00:00
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"Happiness Ahead--For the Healthy but Not for the Diseased"
"Get Full Medical Examination For VD Before Marriage"
This poster advises couples to get VD exams before marrying to ensure their happiness.
Source
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, US Navy, circa 1940-1945, Box Oversize flat 1 and map case drawer 11.
This comic strip shows the initiation of an industry syphilis control program. It makes clear that screening employees for syphilis improves efficiency and that results will be confidential.
This comic strip shows Jane consulting her doctor and getting a prenatal syphilis test. She has a healthy baby. There is also text accompanying the strip that gives more information.
American Social Health Association Records (1905-2005), University of Minnesota, Social Welfare History Archives, C.D. Batchelor Cartoons, 1940-1941, Box 177, Folder 23.
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This poster promotes the inclusion of syphilis blood tests in routine physicals. ]]>2015-07-09T11:53:15+00:00
American Social Health Association Records (1905-2005), University of Minnesota, Social Welfare History Archives, United States Public Health Service posters, 1940s Box Oversize flat 1, http://purl.umn.edu/62451.
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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.
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Detail from an educational pamphlet by the USPHS on syphilis. The photograph shows a man looking through a darkfield microscope at syphilis samples.]]>2015-02-25T13:19:07+00:00
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"Syphilis, Its Cause, Its Spread..Its Cure!" (Detail--Darkfield Exam)
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.
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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"Have you had your blood test and examination : Go to your doctor of dept. of health : Bureau of Social Hygiene, 51 Stuyvesant Place, S.I."]]>2015-07-09T11:53:15+00:00
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"Stamp Out Syphilis and Gonorrhea"
Description
This poster urges viewers to have tests and exams to check for syphilis and gonorrhea.
"Have you had your blood test and examination : Go to your doctor of dept. of health : Bureau of Social Hygiene, 51 Stuyvesant Place, S.I."
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"Every baby is entitled to be born healthy : Blood test & examination should be made before marriage by your doctor or Bureau of Social Hygiene Clinic, 51 Stuyvesant Place, Staten Island."]]>2015-02-25T13:05:50+00:00
This poster encourages couples to be tested before marriage to ensure healthy children.
"Every baby is entitled to be born healthy : Blood test & examination should be made before marriage by your doctor or Bureau of Social Hygiene Clinic, 51 Stuyvesant Place, Staten Island."
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"It can be prevented and cured : For examination and free pamphlets go to your doctor or Dept. of Health clinic."]]>2015-07-18T10:00:59+00:00
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"Gonorrhea Causes Blindness - Arthritis, Invalidism and Misery"