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Drawing of blind girl with a message warning about gonorrhea.

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TITLE:  Blinded By Gonorrhea
ORIGINAL CAPTION:  If the mother has gonorrhea, her child may be blinded at birth. Simple medical treatment at time of birth will prevent such blindness. Men who think themselves cured sometimes infect their wives with gonorrhea. Chronic ill-helath and inability to have children are often caused by gonorrhea. Many serious operations on married women are due to this disease.
CREATOR:  American Social Health Association
DATE:  1922
FORMAT:  Poster
DIMENSIONS:  8.5 x 11 in
 
FROM:  Social Hygiene Posters
SOURCE:  University of Minnesota Libraries, Social Welfare History Archives
CONTROL NO.:  swhp0087
 
KEYWORDS:  American Social Health Association, Blind, Children, Disease, Eugenics, Heredity, Media, Medicine, Parenting, Physical Disability, Public Health, Public Relations, Sexuality, Social Hygiene, Venereal Disease, YMCA
 
IMAGE SIZE:  (395 x 550 pixels)
 
SEE ALSO FROM THIS ARTIFACT:
- A Syphilitic Baby
- Blind Boys
- The Happiness of Children
- What Kind of Children?
- What One Girl Did


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