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Friday, 08 December 2006

Day 15

Brandt, A.M.

Another well-known physician, Frederick Hollick, prescribed a measure, no less heroic, for the treatment of a complication of gonorrhoea known as chordee, a curvature of the penis which caused pain upon erection. Hollick recommended that the organ be placed “with the curve upward on a table and struck a violent blow with a book … and so flattening it”.

No Magic Bullet: A Social History of Venereal Disease in the United States since 1880 with a New Chapter on AIDS (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1987) p. 12. where he refers to Frederick Hollick A Popular Treatise on Venereal Disease (New York, 1852)

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