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'Suffering for the Sins of Others': Lucius D. Bulkley, , and Disease Destigmatisation in the Progressive Era United States.
Med Hist
January 2025
Independent Scholar.
Historical research on efforts to reduce the stigma associated with venereal disease (VD) generally dates these campaigns back to the 1930s. Within the United States, one of the earliest attempts to detach VD from its traditional association with sexual immorality occurred during the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century, when the New York City dermatologist Lucius Bulkley coined the term ('syphilis of the innocent') in the hopes of demonstrating that many of those who contracted this disease did so through non-sexual contact. Gaining widespread acceptance within the medical community, Bulkley's ideas served as the intellectual foundation for a discursive assault on the prevailing belief that syphilis constituted the 'wages of sin'-one designed to destigmatise the disease and to promote more scientific responses to it.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEndocarditis and ascending aortic aneurysm with aortic valve insufficiency secondary to late syphilis: Case report.
Sci Prog
December 2024
Cardiology and Internal Medicine Department, Fundación Clínica Shaio, Bogotá, Colombia.
Article Synopsis
- Venereal syphilis, caused by the bacteria Treponema pallidum, can escalate to serious complications like tertiary syphilis, which affects the heart decades after the initial infection.
- A case study highlights a 46-year-old woman who developed life-threatening cardiac issues, including an ascending aortic aneurysm and severe aortic valve damage, due to untreated late-stage syphilis.
- She underwent surgery to repair her aorta and replace the damaged valve, receiving antibiotics and intensive care; her recovery was satisfactory with no complications reported three months later.
Ocular Syphilis as a Primary Manifestation of Neurosyphilis: A Case Report.
Cureus
May 2024
Internal Medicine, South Georgia Medical Center, Valdosta, USA.
Sexually transmitted infectious diseases could affect a variety of organs, generating significant symptomatology. In the elderly population, infectious causes for vision problems are not generally considered. We present the case of an elderly patient with blurred vision and darkening of visual fields.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA national screening for the prevalence and profile of disability types among Egyptian children aged 6-12 years: a community-based population study.
BMC Public Health
August 2023
Community Medicine Research Department/ Medical Research and Clinical Studies Institute, National Research Centre (Affiliation ID: 60014618), Dokki, Cairo, Egypt.
Aim: This study aimed to determine the prevalence of disability domains among Egyptian children in the age group of 6-12 years as well as assess their socio-demographic, epidemiological, and perinatal predictors.
Methods: A national population-based cross-sectional household survey targeting 20,324 children from eight governorates was conducted. The screening questionnaire was derived from the WHO ten-question survey tool validated for the identification of disabilities.
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