Sexual disease and its medical prevention / by H.N. Robson.

  • Robson, H. N.
Date:
1911
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Credit: Sexual disease and its medical prevention / by H.N. Robson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    In 1895 I went for a long trip abroad, lasting until 1900, visiting the countries numbered 21 to 49 in the Appendix ; and on journeys of this kind one gathers an amount of information that is at once extensive and peculiar. In Australian cities like Melbourne and Sydney there was a good deal of disease, whilst in the country districts the popu- lation is fairly free from it; and this remark applies to most countries. Proceeding from Australia to New Zealand, where I stopped seven months, quite a long stay was made at Rotorua and Whakarewarewa, places much frequented on account of their hot springs by people suffering from rheumatism. I found out that in many of the incurable cases coming from the Antipodes and elsewhere, the patients were not suffering from rheumatism at all, but from gonorrhoeal arthritis or inflammation of the joints, which is concealed under the misnomer of rheumatism in all English-speaking countries. From New Zealand I went to the Coral Islands in the South Pacific, and stayed three months in Tahiti, a most beautiful and romantic island, in- habited by the best - looking nativ^e race ever discovered by the white man. It is a French possession, without any regulations for prostitution.