Gonorrhea historical perspective
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Overview
Historical perspective
- It has been suggested that mercury was used as a treatment for gonorrhea.
- Surgeons' tools on board the recovered English warship the Mary Rose included a syringe that, according to some, was used to inject the mercury via the urinary meatus into any unfortunate crewman suffering from gonorrhea.
- The name "the clap", in reference to the disease, is recorded as early as the sixteenth century.[1]
- Silver nitrate was one of the widely used drugs in the 19th century, but it became replaced by Protargol.
- Arthur Eichengrün invented this type of colloidal silver, which was marketed by Bayer from 1897 on.
- The silver-based treatment was used until the first antibiotics came into use in the 1940s.[27][28]
- The exact time of onset of gonorrhea as prevalent disease or epidemic cannot be accurately determined from the historical record.
- One of the first reliable notations occur in the Acts of the (English) Parliament. In 1161 this body passed a law to reduce the spread of "...the perilous infirmity of burning."[29]
- The symptoms described are consistent with, but not diagnostic of, gonorrhea. A similar decree was passed by Louis IX in France in 1256, replacing regulation with banishment.[30]
- Similar symptoms were noted at the siege of Acre[disambiguation needed ] by Crusaders.
- Coincidental to, or dependent on, the appearance of a gonorrhea epidemic, several changes occurred in European medieval society. Cities hired public health doctors to treat afflicted patients without right of refusal.
- Pope Boniface rescinded the requirement that physicians complete studies for the lower orders of the Catholic priesthood.
- Medieval public health physicians in the employ of their cities were required to treat prostitutes infected with the "burning", as well as lepers and other epidemic victims.[31] After Pope Boniface completely secularized the practice of medicine, physicians were more willing to treat a sexually transmitted disease.[citation needed]
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