From a doctor's diary. Can you get them by accident, doctor?

100 From a doctor's diary This is based on a doctor's experience of cases of V.D. It has been carefully edited so that the people concerned shall not be recognised. "'...Can you get them by accident, doctor?' I'm often asked that question. My answer is that venereal diseases can be caught by accident—that is to say, without sexual intercourse—but such cases are very rare. At my hospital in the last twenty years, we've found only forty-five cases of accidental infection with syphilis — that is an average of only two cases a year in a large clinic.