"As a danger to the public health, as a peril to the family, and as a menace to the vitality, health, and physical progress of the race, the venereal diseases are justly regarded as the greatest of modern plagues."

—Milton J. Rosenau, M. D.

"The present medical opinion of venereal diseases is an infinitely greater curse to the world than will be all the diseases of mankind when they are understood and treated properly."

—J. H. Tilden, M. D.

Introduction

Chapter I The Beginning of a Myth

Chapter II The Myth Becomes a Lie

Chapter III A Pathological Mocking Bird

Chapter IV The Myth Becomes a Nightmare

Chapter V The Nightmare Becomes a Mania

Chapter VI Tests That Do Not Test

Chapter VII What Causes "Syphilis"?

Chapter VIII Diagnosing a Protean Monster

Chapter IX The Beginning of Quackery

Chapter X New Evils for Old

Chapter XI The Artificial Fever Cure

Chapter XII What Is "Syphilis"?

Chapter XIII Regular Abuse of the "Syphilitic"

Chapter XIV . The Hygienic Care of the "Syphilitic"

Addendum

To the human race, in the sincere hope that the truths it contains may serve to emancipate mankind from the frightful slavery to the siphilis myth and the still more frightful treatment accorded so-called syphilitics, this little book is lovingly dedicated, by

H. M. SHELTON