Altino Catapan was born in Cittadella, Padova, Veneto, Italy on July 4th, 1912. He graduated from the University of Padova in 1935. He went to Africa in 1937, as a dermatologist, to work in the Italian colonies of Ethiopia, Abisinia, and Eritrea. In 1938, he became a prisoner in an English concentration camp, and was …
In 1988, the medical-scientific association was founded, using the headquarters of the Associação Médica Fluminense in Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. SBDST holds traditional scientific congresses. Its 13th edition will take place this year, in June 2021. It is also responsible (together with the UFF STD Sector) for the scientific journal STD – Brazilian STD …
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William Wallace (1791-1837). On July 8th, 1827, he published an article in “The Lancet” (Volume 28, Issue 723, pages 534-540) in which he documents that secondary syphilis lesions transmitted the disease. In his experiments, Wallace inoculated exanthematic ulcer secretions from two patients with secondary syphilis into three healthy subjects. With subsequent carefully documented clinical observation, …
Sir William Osler, Baronet, was born on July 12th, 1849. Canadian physician and one of the four founding professors at Johns Hopkins Hospital. Osler created the first residency program for specialty medical training and was the first to take medical students from the classroom to clinical training at the bedside. He has often been described …
On July 17th, 1998, Claire M. Fraser, together with several other researchers in the scientific journal Science (Vol. 281, 1998; 375-388), published an article detailing for the first time the complete sequence of Treponema pallidum.
Jonathan Hutchinson was born on July 23rd, 1828, Selby, the United Kingdom. He was an English surgeon, ophthalmologist, dermatologist, and pathologist. His parents belonged to the Religious Society of Friends. He discovered one of the rarest diseases in the world, Progeria. He described the serrated teeth as pathognomonic for congenital syphilis.
In 1972, the American newspaper The New York Times published on its front page a report on the Tuskegee Study. The whistleblower, Peter Buxtun, provided Jean Heller (investigative journalist) with evidence that, for four decades, people enrolled in Tuskegee's "study" had been deliberately denied treatment for syphilis. Years later, Heller called the story “one of …
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Reuben Leon Kahn was born on July 26th, 1887 in Kovno, today Kaunas, Lithuania. Kahn conducted studies on blood reactions, which allowed him to develop an efficient test for the detection of syphilis (1923). This test has shown false results in some cases, for example, if patients had recently received vaccines or had other illnesses …
Constantin Levaditi was born on August 1st, 1874. A Romanian physician and microbiologist, he was an important figure in virology and immunology (especially in the study of polio and syphilis). In his studies on syphilis, Levaditi introduced new techniques in serology and recommended bismuth in the treatment of the disease.
