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poly_chromatic2013-02-01 10:56 am
studmuffin) wrote in poly_chromatic2013-02-01 10:56 am
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[ Someone is very, very bored. He can't really help himself when he gets like this so the text post appears on the network sometime midday and stays there. He's not cursed, he's just a little weird. ]
So looking at all the posts from the other day I've compiled a factsheet for you guys. If you're gonna get it, you might as well have the history, right? I know, I know, I'm awesome.
→ The first hospital for venereal disease was the London Lock Hospital in 1746. Treatment was not always voluntary..
→ STIs/STDs were previously called “venereal diseases” (VDs), a term which derives from Veneris, or Venus, the Roman goddess of love.
→ Chlyamida is Greek for “cloak” because early researchers believed the disease “cloaked” the nucleus of an infect cell.
→ Gonorrhea got its name in the year A.D. 131 from Galen, one of the greatest Greek physicians. Its name literally means “flow of seed” because Galen mistakenly thought the penile discharge was “seed” flowing out against its will.
→ Syphilis is named after a mythological Greek shepherd named Syphilus who was cursed with a horrible disease as a punishment for insulting the god Apollo.
→ Doctors in the late 1400s and early 1500s were so afraid of syphilis they would not write down its name. Instead they used the Greek letter Sigma as its symbol.a
→ Historians believe syphilis originated in the New World among the Native Americans in the Caribbean, and that Christopher Columbus may have been responsible for spreading syphilis to Europe.
You're welcome.
So looking at all the posts from the other day I've compiled a factsheet for you guys. If you're gonna get it, you might as well have the history, right? I know, I know, I'm awesome.
→ The first hospital for venereal disease was the London Lock Hospital in 1746. Treatment was not always voluntary..
→ STIs/STDs were previously called “venereal diseases” (VDs), a term which derives from Veneris, or Venus, the Roman goddess of love.
→ Chlyamida is Greek for “cloak” because early researchers believed the disease “cloaked” the nucleus of an infect cell.
→ Gonorrhea got its name in the year A.D. 131 from Galen, one of the greatest Greek physicians. Its name literally means “flow of seed” because Galen mistakenly thought the penile discharge was “seed” flowing out against its will.
→ Syphilis is named after a mythological Greek shepherd named Syphilus who was cursed with a horrible disease as a punishment for insulting the god Apollo.
→ Doctors in the late 1400s and early 1500s were so afraid of syphilis they would not write down its name. Instead they used the Greek letter Sigma as its symbol.a
→ Historians believe syphilis originated in the New World among the Native Americans in the Caribbean, and that Christopher Columbus may have been responsible for spreading syphilis to Europe.
You're welcome.
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