The Invader

Duration: 37

Year Published: 1955

Creator: Center for Mass Communication

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: sound

Description: Traces efforts since the 15th century to cope with the problem of syphilis. Shows the step-by-step development of medical knowledge, and the changes in public attitude toward the disease. Dramatizes the story from the 15th to the 19th centuries by means of contemporary woodcuts, engravings, paintings, and drawings by such artists as Dürer, Breughel, Hogarth, and Daumier; and the later story with actual photographs of Ehrlich and Hata, and motion picture records of the work of Fleming, Mahoney and others.

Complete Record: Traces efforts since the 15th century to cope with the problem of syphilis. Shows the step-by-step development of medical knowledge, and the changes in public attitude toward the disease. Dramatizes the story from the 15th to the 19th centuries by means of contemporary woodcuts, engravings, paintings, and drawings by such artists as Dürer, Breughel, Hogarth, and Daumier; and the later story with actual photographs of Ehrlich and Hata, and motion picture records of the work of Fleming, Mahoney and others.