Making the mecca of the American syphilitic, 1880-1910 -- "Administering to minds diseased": treating syphilis in turn-of-the-century Hot Springs -- Diagnosing syphilis at Army and Navy General Hospital, 1890-1912 -- The Hot Springs VD clinic, 1920-1937 -- From hygiene to hydrot…
"This book examines the "venereal peril" of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries from the perspective of medical practice and the many sufferers who annually journeyed to Hot Springs, AR, seeking relief for their venereal ailments. Syphilis's status as a stigmatized…