Foundation of the Brazilian Society of Dermato-Syphilography, the first scientific society in the area of venereal diseases, in 1912, during the period in which Fernando Terra held the chair. The amphitheater of the 19th Infirmary (São Miguel Couto Pavilion) of Santa Casa de Misericórdia of Rio de Janeiro for many years hosted the entity’s meetings. …
Adolf Jarisch was born on February 15th, 1850. He was an Austrian dermatologist specialized in the treatment of venereal diseases. The Jarisch-Herxheimer reaction, an inflammatory response that he noticed after treatment for syphilis, was partially named after him. Jarisch was the father of a famous pharmacologist, Adolf Jarisch Jr. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Jarisch
August Paul von Wasserman was born on February 21st, 1866. Wasserman developed, in 1906, the first serological test for syphilis, with alcoholic extract of macerated ox heart plus lecithin and cholesterol, called cardiolipin. The test detected antitreponemic antibodies. It is still used today as VDRL (Venereal Disease Research Laboratory). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_von_Wassermann
Worldwide release of the film about the Tuskegee experiment, a secret “medical study” of the United States federal government’s public health service with black and poor men in the years from 1932 to 1972, designed to study the effects of untreated syphilis. The story is told from the perspective of a small-town nurse, Eunice Evers …
Worldwide release of the film “Dr. Ehrlich’s Magic Bullet”, from 1940, of the biographical drama genre, directed by William Dieterle and starring Edward G. Robinson and Ruth Gordon. The script, by John Huston, is based on the letters and notes of Doctor Paul Ehrlich, discoverer of the cure for syphilis, and has the courage to …
