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 …
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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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.
Alexander Fleming, was born on August 6th, 1881. In 2021, it is 140 years since his birth. He discovered penicillin, the most effective antibiotic to date for treating syphilis, at all stages.
Girolamo Fracastorii (Hieronymi Fracasrorii, Latin name as it appears in his work). He died on August 8th, 1553. We have his birth year, 1478, but not the date. He was a doctor, writer, author of the book Syphilis, Sive Morbus Gallicus (Syphilis or French Evil), published in Verona in 1530. This work, written in Latin, …
Oscar da Silva Araújo, born on August 26th, 1886, in Rio de Janeiro, was one of the first and greatest Brazilian venereologists and syphilographers.
King K. Holmes was born on September 1st, 1937. From St. Paul, Minnesota, in the United States, he is the founder and director of the University of Washington’s AIDS and STD Center and a contributor to the World Health Organization AIDS and STD Center. Author of hundreds of peer-reviewed scientific articles and dozens of textbooks. …
