Person · Informant / contact
Professore Placella
A Naples gynaecologist whose speciality is the surgical restoration of virginity — his replacement, he boasts, is better than the original.
In the book
Parkinson’s most valuable medical contact; he helps expose the hospital racket by which syphilitic prostitutes bought clean bills of health, and later helps spring the trap on the coercive VD round-up.
Appears in 2 diary entries.
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November 10 1943A Neapolitan prince and his sister calmly request that she be admitted to a (nonexistent) army brothel, illustrating the era's blunt attitudes to sex and survival.
gynaecologist specialising in the restoration of virginity, one of Parkinson's medical contacts
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October 16 1944A large-scale, coercive round-up of women for VD examinations follows a tip from a gynecologist contact, exposing the harsh methods used to fight the disease.
helps set the trap that exposes the VD round-up operation
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