本世纪四十年代以前,性病的内容仅包含梅毒和淋病等几种疾病。近40年来,此一医学学科发展很快,随着对这类疾病认识的进展和变化,1973年世界卫生组织(WHO)对这类疾病提出了新的命名——性传播疾病,简称STD。目前这一病种的范围已扩大到约30种,但其中主要的病种仍为梅毒和淋病,以及晚近急剧流行而危害剧烈的艾滋病。在旧中国,以梅毒和淋病为主的性病曾广泛流 By the 1940s, the content of venereal disease contained only several diseases such as syphilis and gonorrhea. In the past 40 years, this medical discipline has developed rapidly. With the progress and changes in understanding of such diseases, the World Health Organization (WHO) proposed a new naming-sexually transmitted disease (STD) for such diseases in 1973. The current range of the disease has now been expanded to about 30, but the major ones are still syphilis and gonorrhea, as well as the recent pandemic and the drastic AIDS epidemic. In old China, sexually transmitted diseases, predominantly syphilis and gonorrhea, have been widely reported