Venereal Diseases Today

Abstract

THE venereal diseases are so called because they are acquired and spread principally through sexual exposure. They are five in number, and their frequency in the United States is in this descending order: gonorrhea, syphilis, chancroid, lymphogranuloma venereum and granuloma inguinale. The last three have been classed as minor venereal diseases because their incidence and prevalence are considerably less than those of gonorrhea or syphilis. In Massachusetts, as well as in the United States, the minor venereal diseases constitute only 0.5 to 1 per cent of the total cases reported.It is our purpose to summarize the present state of . . .