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Of or pertaining to gonorrhea as gonorrheal rheumatism...
Contagious Diseases Prevention Acts (English)
Contagious Diseases Prevention Acts (English) (29 Vict. c. 35, and 32 & 33 Vict. c. 96). These Acts, sometimes termed the C.D. Acts, were passed to prevent 'venereal diseases, including gonorrh'a,' by the medical examination and detention of prostitutes. They were in force at certain naval and military stations, and were repealed in 1886 by 49 & 50 Vict. c. 10. See Amos on the Laws for the Regulation of Vice....
Venereal disease
Venereal disease. The (English) Venereal Disease Act, 1917, prohibits the treatment of venereal disease otherwise than by a duly qualified medical practitioner. Advertisement o cures, treatment, etc., is prohibited except when made to duly qualified medical practitioners or chemists or by public authorities. Venereal disease is defined as meaning syphilis, gonorrh'a, or soft chancre, and see INFECTIOUS DISEASES; Public Health Acts, 1875-1936; Local Government Acts, 1929 and 1933. See also SLANDER and CRUELTY. [Referred, Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 (25 of 1955), s. 13(1)(v)]...
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