V.D.? See Your Doctor (Canada Dept. of National Health and Welfare, 1968)

Published: 27 September 2018
on channel: National Library of Medicine
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Over footage of young people in school, in social situations, in a physician's office, and in a public health department office, the symptoms, mode of transmission, and dangers of gonorrhea and syphilis are presented. The necessity of contacting sexual partners is stressed, and the emotional distress this can cause is illustrated. The folly of ignoring symptoms and of using patent medicines is explained. The viewer is urged to eschew promiscuous sexual activity.

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