soft chancre

'Have you never had gonorrhoea, syphilis, soft chancre?

The practice consisted of repeated inoculations of secretion from "soft chancre", until inoculation caused no further reaction.

Chancroid (also known as soft chancre and ulcus molle) is a bacterial sexually transmitted infection characterized by painful sores on the genitalia.

The initial ulcer may be mistaken as a "hard" chancre, the typical sore of primary syphilis, as opposed to the "soft chancre" of chancroid.

Their main job is to satisfy the lust of the gentlemen oficers and, rather shamefully, of a number of doctors, too [-] New officers are coming in almost daily with cases of syphilis, gonorrhoea and soft chancre.

But the centers said in a statement that the drive against sexually transmitted diseases was made more difficult in the 1980's by increases in ailments like chancroid, or soft chancre, and herpes, by the exchanging sexual favors for crack and by the advent of AIDS.

Chancroid, also called soft sore, soft chancre, and 'ulcus molle', is a disease of world-wide distribution but is seen only rarely in temperate climates and is uncommon in Western Europe or North America and, when it has been diagnosed, it has usually been imported from warmer countries.