Safe Marriage - A Return to Sanity by Ettie A. Rout
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parts with weak solution of pot. permang.
You had far better carry a blue-light outfit with you as a "town dressing," in the same way as you would carry a "field dressing." If you cannot get an outfit, carry a tiny bottle of pot. permang. lotion and a scrap of cotton wool. If you swob yourself _carefully_ with this, you will not become diseased. Remember always _it is delay that is dangerous_. If there has been delay, use a syringe sufficiently large for the contents to flood the urethra and slightly distend it, so that every nook and cranny is cleansed. Whatever you do, make certain of _going home clean_. Be sure of your health and doubly sure before you embark. While you are in the army and on this side of the world you can be cured easily and privately. If you go home infected, there will be embarrassment and expense to yourself and _great danger_ to the women and children you love. _Get cured NOW._" (Paris, April, 1919).[K] [Footnote I: The following is taken from a paper read by Captain H.L. Walker, Canadian Medical Service, O.C. Report Centre (British), Paris, at Conference on V.D., organised by the American Red Cross in April, 1918:-- "Speaking in regard to licensed houses, Captain Walker said that he _had not found one case of venereal disease_ contracted in a licensed house in the City of Paris, and he could only suppose that the people who were responsible for putting the licensed houses in Paris out of bounds knew nothing at all about the real facts of the case.... In the licensed houses in the City of Paris, during the |
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