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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    and disease is rampant, having been introduced by Captain Cook’s ship, the Endeavour^ when he first discovered the island in 1769. It was sad to see a gentle, lovable, handsome race undergoing the process of being civilised off the face of the earth. I left Tahiti in a sailing ship that was the mail- boat for San Francisco, and en route took charge of the medicine chest, as I was the only one aboard who had studied pharmacology ; and owing to this found out that there were few men in sound health, and that I was one of the few. This finally con- vinced me that prophylaxis was to be relied upon, but the method was only suitable for those experi- enced in drugs, and in England the latter would come under the Poisons Act. Landing in San Francisco on my fourth visit to that city, which has since been destroyed by earth- quake and fire, I found that the American flag still floated over the same conditions of disease as described years previously by the American officer, and not even an optimistic belief in Anglo-American ideals for the promotion of morality could have detected any improvement in the general habits of the population at large. At the end of three months I proceeded to the Sandwich or Hawaiian Islands, and there again