![]() The investigation and treatment of yaws and syphilis was heralded as one of the great triumphs of the US occupation of Haiti, which lasted from 1915 to 1934. Robert Parsons’ History of Haitian medicine, the anti-treponematoses campaigns took centre stage in a text issued solely to bask in the achievements of US imperial medicine in Haiti. These observations have gone into the medical literature of America and France and have been abstracted by the medical press of every country ( Parsons, 1930 PARSONS, Robert. A great number of scientific observations on the many aspects of the yaws question have been made during this work. It has contributed something else that reaches far beyond the confines of the little republic. ![]() This is not only because of its tremendous accomplishments for the human and economic betterment of Haiti. The yaws work stands out as the most glowing chapter of all Haitian medicine. ![]()
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