African American patient receiving treatment ?
African American patient receiving treatment for syphilis in public health service clinic-on-wheels, Wadesboro, N.C. in the 1930s. Until the availability of penicillin in the 1940s, treatments for syphilis was the potentially toxic arsenic-containing dru
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Arsenic Availability Blacks Carolina Clinic Containing Discrimination Penicillin Potentially Segregation Syphilis Toxic Treatments Venereal
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