TY - JOUR T1 - Then and now: a vignette JF - Sexually Transmitted Infections JO - Sex Transm Infect DO - 10.1136/sextrans-2016-053019 SP - sextrans-2016-053019 AU - J S Bingham Y1 - 2017/03/06 UR - http://sti.bmj.com/content/early/2017/03/06/sextrans-2016-053019.abstract N2 - The first issue of the British Journal of Venereal Diseases appeared in January 1925. It declared its aims and ideals, Colonel Harrison described the new clinic system, there were articles on the use of bismuth in the treatment of syphilis and even on the use of diathermy to treat gonorrhoea!An introduction was written by Sir Humphry Rolleston, President of the Royal … ER -