venereal disease – Circulating Now from the NLM Historical Collections

A film still of a framed poster that says "Know for Sure-get a blood test for syphilis."

VD at the Movies: Public Health Service World War II Venereal Disease Films

November 21, 2019 Circulating Now

Circulating Now welcomes guest blogger John Parascandola, PhD from the University of Maryland to explore the use of film in public health campaigns against venereal

Poster illustrated with a cartoon of a small silhouette of a solder in front of a large drawing of a civilian man.

“Fit to Fight”: Home front Army doctors and VD during WW I

October 18, 2018 Circulating Now

By Susan L. Speaker ~ After the United States entered the World War in April 1917, Dr. Wilbur Sawyer, a 37-year-old public health administrator with