Essays Tagged: "Syphilis"

Aids

become infected?1. sexual intercoursea) vaginal Having another sexually transmitted disease such as syphilis,b) anal herpes or gonorrhea appears to make someone morec) oral susceptible to acquiring HI ...

(2 pages) 61 1 4.8 Feb/1997

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

Antibiotics

ordinarily. The antibiotics are used to treat many various types of diseases, such as tuberculosis, syphilis, and several kinds of infections.People have been using antibiotics for more than 2,500 yea ...

(4 pages) 89 0 4.3 Mar/1997

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol

Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STD)

ognized as being transmitted primarily by sexual means. The more familiar STD's are AIDS, gonorhea, syphilis, chlamydia-related infections, genital herpes, candidiasis, nonspecific vaginitis, trichomo ... isease.Gonorrhea is known by such street names as 'clap','drip','dose','strain','gleet', and 'jack'.SYPHILISSyphilis is perhaps the best known of all the STD's. Once confined to certain parts of the w ...

(9 pages) 178 0 4.0 Nov/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

The Safety of Blood

supply was low? What if the blood that she received had been infected with a deadly disease such as Syphilis or HIV? These are pressing concerns for today's society. Even though one in every five peop ... performed on it, providing another way to insure that the blood supply is safe. Testing is done for Syphilis, Hepititis B and C, abnormal liver function, and Human T-Lymphotrophic Virus type I and typ ...

(6 pages) 77 1 3.7 Sep/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine

A World Without Engineers

Once upon a time, in a galaxy far, far away, on the planet Zovirax, there was an evil king, King Syphilis, who was mighty pleased with himself, for he had just banished all the engineers on the pla ... ple executive order. I have rid the planet of those annoying, nerdy, know-it-all, engineers.' (King Syphilis was actually quite envious of them, because he went to a Junior University in Palo Alto, an ...

(2 pages) 38 0 3.8 Oct/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Space

Critical analysis of the movie Miss Ever's Boys.

are they ones who funded the project. They are the ones that started the idea that supposedly that syphilis was a black people disease. And that they react with his disease very differently than whit ... ed me that the government was racist back then. This experiment was all about racism. The idea that syphilis was a black disease and knowing that penicillin cured or helped them and not given o them w ...

(3 pages) 62 0 3.0 Nov/2002

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies

The sexually transmitted disease epidemic. List of common diseases, causes, cures and stats.

total health level and is severely straining the world health care system. The diseases gonorrhea, syphilis, herpes simplex, genital warts, chlamydia, and chancroid effect all cultures and are transf ... 0 infectious diseases contracted in the United States were cases of gonorrhea. Together, gonorrhea, syphilis, and AIDS accounted for two thirds of all reportable infectious diseases in the United Stat ...

(7 pages) 250 2 3.6 Dec/2002

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

I need help with this essay, read the end to understand

I disagree with this reasoning because I see little harm in telling the patient that she may have syphilis, whereas I can see great potential harm in not telling her. I believe there is a duty to wa ... is a duty to warn irrespective of whose patient Mrs Scott is. If the patient already knows she has syphilis, I doubt she will be upset at having someone go to the trouble of contacting her to make su ...

(6 pages) 137 1 2.0 Sep/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy

Reasons behind Salem Witch Accusations-bibliography included lucky reader

t I do believe that there was some form of sexual contact between them. Fromthis Abigail contracted syphilis. This occurred a while before the trials began and so by the time Abigail began to cryout s ... og," ( Mike Shafer, pg. 2 ). This shows that she was showing signs of dementia which is a symptom ofsyphilis as described in this article by K. Holmes, " Late stage signs and symptoms include not bein ...

(2 pages) 26 1 3.0 Jan/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

HIV and AIDS: Causes and Affects On the Population of Nigeria

rhoids growing into a softball sized crater. The doctors in Manchester, UK, suspected tuberculosis, syphilis, or Wegener's granulomatosis, and in an attempt to eradicate his unique disease, subjected ...

(12 pages) 169 1 4.8 Feb/2004

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays

Medical Testing on Animals

ane, deliberately inflicted with diseases such as cancer, diabetes,oral infections, stomach ulcers, Syphilis, herpes, and AIDS. Theireyes are surgically removed; their brains and spinal cords damaged, ...

(3 pages) 63 0 4.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Current Issues

How Human Behaviour May Influence Health And Disease

luded under the term infectious disease are STDs (sexually transmitted diseases) such as: HIV/AIDS, syphilis and chlamidia. Because the method of transmission of the pathogen is usually by sexual acti ... ases that humans pass on to one another or threw lifestyle:ImpetigoAlcohol AbuseGonorrhoeaDrug AbuseSyphilisFood PoisoningInfluenzaChickenpoxMeaslesPolioDietHerpesTuberculosisHeart DiseaseHIV/AIDSCold ...

(8 pages) 177 0 5.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine

Everyone Else Has A Dream Too is the name of the essay and its points out that there are other groups of people that deserve recognition for thier suffering.

settled North America, Native Americans. The Europeans invaded their land, introduced diseases like Syphilis, and took advantage of the Indians. The settlers perceived them as savages who need to be " ...

(2 pages) 20 0 3.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues

Ibsen, Henrik "A Doll's House"

at friend of Nora and Torvald, grew up sickly, diseased before conception after his father received syphilis from one of his many mistresses. Finally, the character Krogstad suppressed a crime and is ...

(4 pages) 213 0 4.6 May/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Ghosts Play

for its time and place.The main character in the play was Helene (the mother of Oswald). Oswald had syphilis, an STD. Oswald thought he caught it trough his own fault, when in fact he's inherited it t ...

(1 pages) 60 1 3.0 May/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Drama

Parents are hypocritical

a huge issue in today's society, with many risks involved. You could catch STDs such as gonorrhea, syphilis, herpes, genital warts, HIV and even AIDS, with some having the potential to kill you. If t ...

(2 pages) 45 3 2.0 Jun/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays

Testing On Animals

ne, deliberately inflicted with diseases such as cancer, diabetes, oral infections, stomach ulcers, Syphilis, herpes, and AIDS. Their eyes are surgically removed; their brains and spinal cords damaged ...

(3 pages) 21 0 2.5 Oct/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine

Essay - Was King Henry VIII a good or a bad king?

and passed away in 1547. In Henry's lifetime he had many things wrong with him including: gangrene, syphilis and scurvy (when gums rot due to lack of vitamin C - he thought fruit was for peasants). He ...

(5 pages) 28 1 5.0 Jul/2006

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

Syphylis

The Progression of Syphilis to Neuro-SyphilisAbstractSyphilis is a viral infection that causes three recognized stages ... the central nervous system and, when it does, there is a possibility that a condition known as neurosyphilis will develop. Neurosyphilis is a collection of maladies that result from compromised functi ... e altered to accommodate the specific obstacles associated with this variation of the disease. Neurosyphilis can be avoided with early treatment of the patient using one or more of the appropriate ant ...

(8 pages) 24 0 0.0 Nov/2006

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

Stds

g rates of STD's in teens. Thousands of teens throughout the US have been diagnosed with gonorrhea, syphilis, herpes, and the most deadly of them all AIDS. In my opinion the r ...

(1 pages) 1088 0 5.0 Apr/2001

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine