[Ads-l] "V.D." antedating

[Jonathan Lighter]

Thanks, Garson.

JL

On Thu, Apr 17, 2025 at 10:39 PM ADSGarson O'Toole <
adsgarsonotoole at gmail.com> wrote:

> Excellent citation, JL. Here is a slight improvement.
>
> V.D. was used as an abbreviation many times in the following report
> which was published in 1916 based on evidence collected up to June 21,
> 1915.
>
> Date: 1916
> Title: Royal Commission On Venereal Diseases
> Title Continued: Appendix To Final Report of The Commissioners
> Title Continued: Minutes of Evidence 27th April 1914 to 21st June 1915
> Publisher: Printed Under the Authority of His Majesty's Stationery Office
> Section: Digest of Evidence
>
>
> https://books.google.com/books?id=Jsg9AQAAMAAJ&q=%22V.D.+%3D+Venereal%22#v=snippet&
>
> [Begin excerpt page 435]
> Abbreviations
> V.D. = Venereal Disease
> [End excerpt]
>
> [Begin excerpt page 436]
> Much of the disease in rejections of recruits both
> from V.D. and other causes, is due to superior
> ability of recruiting sergeants in selecting men.
> This will markedly affect V.D. returns, as also will
> the improvement in the class of recruits.
>
> Within the Army there is no concealment of V.D.;
> men can be "crimed" for concealment. Each
> case of V.D. has one "admission" at the start;
> another only if active symptoms reappear.
> [End excerpt]
>
> Garson
>
> On Thu, Apr 17, 2025 at 8:16 PM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Slightly earlier, perhaps:
> >
> > 1918 _Public Health Reports_ (May 24)  802: The V. D. campaign, as waged
> by
> > the United States Public Health Service, by the ‘‘Section on combating
> > V. D.” of the Surgeon General’s Office, United States Army, and by the
> “Law
> > Enforcement Division, of the Commission on Training Camp Activities.”
> >
> > JL
> >
> > On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 6:06 PM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at yahoo.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > OED has 1920.
> > >
> > > *1918 *in George Walker *Venereal Disease in the American Expeditionary
> > > Forces *(Baltimore: Medical Standard Book Co., 1922) 188: The list (b)
> > > above is tabulated as follows: Expressed intention not to be exposed in
> > > Paris, for following reasons: I. Feared v.d.: Won't take chance without
> > > taking prophylaxis and won't take prophylaxis because it is painful or
> too
> > > much trouble: Don't believe prophylaxis is effective and don't want v.d
> > > ....15. *Ibid. *190: [O]ne private severely criticized one of his own
> > > officers for giving them a lecture on prostitution and v.d. and then
> being
> > > "half-stewed and loving up" a prostitute in a Paris cafe.
> > >
> > > JL
> > >
> > >
> >
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