"Do You Feel Like This?" - flier

Fliers encouraging African Americans to get tested and treated for venereal diseases.

Florida State Board of Health

State Archives of Florida, Series S908

1950 (circa)

fliers (printed matter)

eng-US

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Postwar Florida (1945-1968)

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mid 20th-century

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Health and Safety

DO YOU FEEL LIKE THIS?

NO SORES
NO BODY TROUBLE
NO CLAP
NO STRAIN
NO SYPH

YOU are pretty sure you are not spreading SYPHILIS and GONORRHEA to each other or to your friends in the ARMY and NAVY...but...
Get a blood test for SYPHILIS and a test for GONORRHEA, then you will KNOW FOR SURE.
Check up often so that you can be cured soon in case you do get SYPHILIS or GONORRHEA.
Don't let it get YOU down sick!
The CLINIC is FREE and there they will understand that you want to keep from getting sick - go there!

OR LIKE THIS?

GOT SORES
OR MISERY
OR CLAP
OR THE SYPH
NO PEP

Feel too bad to work steady - so you have no money to dress up and have fun...YOU don't want to go on like that...and...

YOU don't want to spread SYPHILIS and GONORRHEA to each other or to your friends in the ARMY and NAVY - so go to the FREE CLINIC and have a BLOOD TEST for SYPHILIS and a TEST for GONORRHEA. If these are the diseases that are making you sick you will be given treatment FREE. If not they will tell you where to go for tests for other diseases. THEY WILL TREAT YOU RIGHT.

GO TO THE VENEREAL DISEASE CLINIC IN YOUR CITY

SYPHILIS (Pox --- Bad Blood) and GONORRHEA (Clap --- Strain) are the two most dangerous and catching diseases known to man. Yet, they can be CURED when treated in time.

THERE IS ONLY ONE WAY TO CATCH THEM...ONLY ONE WAY TO KNOW IF YOU HAVE THEM...ONLY ONE WAY TO CURE THEM.

YOU CATCH THEM through SEX CONTACTS (Kissing and Loving).

YOU KNOW YOU HAVE THEM by getting a blood test which finds the germs of syphilis and a microscopic or smear test which finds the germs of gonorrhea.

YOU CURE THEM by taking treatment regularly at a PUBLIC HEALTH CLINIC or from a REPUTABLE PHYSICIAN (Doctor of Medicine). NO HERB DOCTORS CURE...NO QUACKS CURE...NO HOME REMEDIES CURE...NO STORE MEDICINES WILL CURE SYPHILIS OR GONORRHEA.

BE PATRIOTIC-Don't attempt to treat yourself-you owe it to your job in winning the war-to your loved ones-yourself-your country-GO VISIT A HEALTH CLINIC AT ONCE...If the tests don't show syphilis or gonorrhea YOUR MIND WILL BE FREE-if they do-you can begin that badly needed treatment at once and free your body from the disease.

SYPHILIS will-like a worm in an apple-hide in your body until it destroys your heart, paralyzes the nerves, or damages other vital parts. And because it attacks any part of the body it is likely to be treated as another ailment-rheumatism, "back misery"-without being cured.
You may never know what actually ails you. You're sick today-up tomorrow-but always feeling BAD. You're a burden to your loved ones-a constant menace spreading the disease to innocent persons. You lay off from work-you cease to be the breadwinner of the family.

Without medical treatment DEATH will roll the final dice.

GONORRHEA will poison your body, DRAW YOUR LEGS, TWIST YOUR ARMS, BEND YOUR BACK-CRIPPLE YOU FOR LIFE. It first shows itself in the form of a discharge from your privates. There is soreness, irritation and burning pain. Thousands of tiny germs are in every drop of discharge - white at first - then thick and yellow. In a man, glands and groin swell and ache - a high fever may develop. Only MEDICAL treatment will prevent the germs from spreading into the testicles. Each day the disease gets a stronger hold on your body and is harder to cure.
In a woman the germs make their way to the tubes, ovaries and womb-sickness and misery are in store for the rest of your life. The child-bearing organs may even have to be removed-either way, GONORRHEA IS THE REASON WHY MANY WOMEN CANNOT HAVE CHILDREN.

GO TO THE VENEREAL DISEASE CLINIC IN YOUR CITY

FLORIDA STATE BOARD OF HEALTH
Division of Venereal Disease Control
Bureau of Health Education