Brian J Ford CBiol, MIBiol, FRSH, FLS, chartered biologist and visiting research scientist, and Member of the Court of Governors, University College, Cardiff.
'The largest, and in some ways the most important, section of Sex and Your Health is about the sexually transmissible diseases. The spread of these diseases, particularly herpes and AIDs has produced its own myths, fears and, more recently, hysteria. Brian Ford, a microbiologist, approaches these diseases with the attitude of a compassionate scientist. He describes the symptoms but, much more importantly, explains how they are transmitted and treated. With this knowledge it is easy to see how they can be prevented. Sexually transmitted diseases are one facet of the social infectious diseases of mankind.'
Dr James Bevan
Main sections:
INTRODUCTION: venereal diseases and STDs
AIDS
CANDIDIASIS
CHANCROID
CLAP
CRABS
CYTOMEGALOVIRUS
CYSTITIS
DISCHARGE
GAY BOWEL SYNDROME
GENITAL WARTS
GLANDULAR FEVER
GONORRHOEA
GRANUMOLA INGUINALE
HEPATITIS
HERPES
INFECTIOUS MONONULCEOSIS
ITICHING (PRURITIS)
KISSING DISEASE
LICE
LYMPHOGRANULOMA VENEREUM
MIMICS; LUMPS AND BUMPS: Balanitis, Boils, Epididymal cyst,
Fibroma, Fordyce spots, Glands, Haematocoel, Hair follicles,
Hydrocoel, Lymphocoel, Papillae, Paraphimosis, Peyronie's
disease, Phimosis, Sebaceous cyst, Spermatocoel, Tumours,
Varicocoel.
MOLLUSCUM CONTAGIOSUM
MONILIASIS
MONONUCLEOSIS (or MONO)
N.G.U.
N.S.U.
PAINFUL PENIS
PELVIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASE
PILES (HAEMORRHOIDS)
POX
PRIAPSM
PROCTALGIA FUGUX
PROCTITIS
PROSTATE PROBLEMS
PRURITIS
RASHES
REITER'S DISEASE
SALMONELLOSIS
SALPINGITIS
SCABIES
SHIGELLOSIS
SIDA
SOFT SORE
SYPHYLIS
THRUSH
TRICHOMONIASIS
URETHRAL DISCHARGE
URETHRITIS
VAGINAL DISCHARGE
VAGINITIS
VULVITIS
VULVO-VAGINITIS
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