Herpes: Cause & Control
Wickett
1982
In the early 80s, this was one of the scarier STDs. (The HIV crisis was still not big news yet.) No one really worried about this stuff. Take some pennicillin and you are good to go. I am quite sure that the message was that “bad” people got sex diseases. If you are “good,” you had no problems. Herpes was different. At the time of this book, it wasn’t reported or monitored like other STDs, so data was limited, but it seemed like a lot of “nice” people were getting herpes as well.
For a medical collection back in the early 1980s, this would be a worthy purchase. As an aside, be prepared for the naked family chart of vulnerable body parts.
Mary
To be honest, I never realized the elbow was so at risk for STDs.
Wow-talk about indiscreet title pages! Imagine trying to check this out at the library……thank god for self-checkouts at libraries these days!
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Those numbers are confusing! Perhaps they make more sense with the text.
You can’t catch cancer from sex, but you can get HPV, which is linked to cancer. http://www.cancer.org/cancer/cancerbasics/is-cancer-contagious
The yellowed pages of that last scan–ewww.
HOLY OVERUSE OF CAPITALS, BATMAN.
Given the discovery that the Human papillomavirus DOES cause cervical cancer, this needs to go in the bin NOW.