Syphilis control required intimate medical surveillance far beyond scabies treatment

Evidence

Compared to scabies, dealing with syphilis presented much more formidable problems. Detecting and treating syphilis necessitated a much closer scrutiny of soldiers’ bodies. The first article of Clot Bey’s Risāla, written specifically for the treatment of syphilis and scabies, went as follows. — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 1148