1. Explaining epidemics and other studies in the history of medicine
2. Cross, S. and Whiteside, A. 1993.Facing up to AIDS: The Socio-Economic Impact in Southern Africa3Houndmills and London eds
3. The major differences must also be kept in view. Syphilis, for instance, has its own distinct epidemiology, proceeds through several discrete phases, and affects patients very differently than HIV. It led to complications which, if often as terrible as those of HIV, were very different. From early in the twentieth century, it could be treated effectively in skilled hands using the arsenical drug salvarsan. Even untreated, it was not invariably fatal
4. The Colour of Disease
5. 1980. To achieve a cure for syphilis, physicians had to administer salvarsan by injection in carefully regulated doses over a long period. Even then the outcome was uncertain. With regard to Africans in South Africa, official policy for many years was to treat victims just sufficiently to render them, as experts wrongly thought, non-infectious. Central Archives Depot, Pretoria, Department of Public Health Archive (GES) 34/33G, Council of Public Health, Minutes of 24th meeting, 12–13 Jan. 1943, statement of Dr. Peter Allan, Secretary for Public Health