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Since 1943, when penicillin was first proved effective against syphilis, doctors have been trying to decide on the best way to use it. Last week Dr. Herman N. Bundesen, president of the Chicago board of health, and four associates reported some new findings in the Journal of the American Medical Association...
Youthful-looking Herman Bundesen, 63, unorthodox president of Chicago's board of health, suggested that De Kruif's decline might be due to a hormone deficiency. Dr. Bundesen believed that the vitality of men and animals is linked to their sexual vigor. He informed De Kruif that organic chemists had isolated and synthesized the essential product of the male sex glands (the female hormones, estradiol and estrone, had been discovered and put to fruitful use still earlier...
Among the speakers at the dedication were U.S. Surgeon General Thomas Parran, venereal disease enemy No. 1, and Chicago's Health Commissioner Herman N. Bundesen, who will head the hospital until a permanent director is chosen. Rear Admiral John Downes, commandant of the Ninth Naval District and Major General Henry S. Aurand, commanding officer of the Sixth Service Command, were on hand to congratulate the city on its "positive stand" on venereal disease-the center is expected to reduce the dangers of infection among service men in the Chicago district...
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...Most citizens approve of the campaign. Two years ago Dr. Bundesen (stretching his position as regional consultant for the U.S. Public Health Service) franked 1,500,000 letters to heads of Chicago families, asking them to come to Board of Health stations for blood tests. Results: over a million replied; 56,000 new cases of syphilis were uncovered...