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Syphilis: bismuth and the criminalisation of homosexuality
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My involvement with STIs started in 1964 as a medical student at Charing Cross Hospital when I volunteered assisting in evening clinics at Martha and Luke clinics at the West London Hospital, Hammersmith. The new chief was J.L. Fluker, an astute clinician. I was 21. The Sexual Offences Act decriminalising homosexual acts in private between two men, both of whom had attained the …
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