Word: gonorrhea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dared dry little whispers on the cause and treatment of venereal disease. Three and a half years ago, when dynamic Thomas Parran was appointed Surgeon-General, he promptly starched up the publicity of the Public Health Service, egged on press and radio to utter the unutterable words "syphilis" and "gonorrhea...
Last fall doctors were startled to receive in the mail a slick new penny pamphlet called Gonorrhea the Crippler! garnished with diagrams and crammed with terse, practical advice. Other new pamphlets were Syphilis in Our Town, and Syphilis, Its Cause, Its Spread, Its Cure. Last week Dr. Parran proudly ushered forth the Service's most ambitious popular work: Communicable Diseases...
Sulfanilamide, the "wonder drug," introduced into the U. S. in 1936, is credited with remarkable cures in cases of gonorrhea, childbed fever, other streptococcal infections. Last week it advanced on a new field of human suffering...
...committee acknowledge the importance of the gonorrhea danger but maintains it will stick with syphilis...
...Harcourt, Brace ($5). *Argyrol was the first silver compound found strong enough to kill gonococci without injuring delicate membranes of eyes, nose, throat, bladder. Many hospitals still use it to protect the eyes of newborn babies against blindness caused by gonorrhea. † Others: The French Primitives & Their Forms, The Art of Henri Matisse, The Art of Renoir...