Word: gonorrhea
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...within three days, clears it up within five days. Obstinate infections get further treatment, may be released if hopeless. Syphilitics are not being drafted: their cure is more difficult. One reason for inducting gonorrheal cases: in World War I many men tried to escape the draft by deliberately contracting gonorrhea...
Biggest medical news for many a day was the report last week of one-day cures for both gonorrhea and syphilis. In the case of syphilis, doctors are still doubtful. The gonorrhea cure was much more certain...
...Gonorrhea. Some 80% acute (i.e., new) gonorrheal infections can be cleaned up by a single massive intravenous dose of sulfathiazole, reports the Military Surgeon. All the symptoms do not vanish at once, but no further treatment is needed, and the soldier-patient can return to duty the day after medication...
Gonococcic Arthritis (a frequent product of gonorrhea) is the easiest form to cure. It usually settles in the knee, ankle or shoulder and cripples about one-fourth of its victims. But early dosing with sulfa drugs brings "striking improvement" within three days. Gouty arthritis-from which more & more U.S. men are suffering-is not curable, but colchicine (a drug from a European lilylike plant) relieves it "spectacularly," although colchicine is of no use in treating any other form of arthritis...
Sterile Women. Chief cause of barrenness in women is obstruction of the fallopian tubes. Tube closures are caused by gonorrhea, bungled abortions, other infections. About half of them cannot be repaired. Other closures can be opened by flushing iodized oil through the tubes. Sometimes a woman needs as many as ten or 15 oil treatments before conception occurs...