Word: gonorrhea
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rapid penicillin treatments, doctors think they have a tool which, if the public will cooperate, can almost eradicate venereal disease. Syphilis treatment: eight days, $52. Gonorrhea: one or two days...
...Doctors are making no headway against gonorrhea. One reason: the easy cure makes people careless about exposure...
...indicated, Dr. Porter, no surgeon, did the best he could without operating. When women standing around during a tough birth got hysterical, Dr. Porter shouted: "Shut up or I'll throw the whole goddamned bunch of you into the road." During one delivery of a young mother with gonorrhea, he picked up an infection, lost...
...other episodes in Mister Roberts are just as simple-a quarrel between two roommates, the achievement of gonorrhea by a seaman at an apparently barren island-but they are told with aptitude and humor. Author Heggen, 27, who now writes for the Reader's Digest, served aboard an assault transport in the Pacific, at Guam, Peleliu, Iwo Jima and Okinawa, thereby seeing somewhat more action at sea than the Reluctant...
...trying to convince people that gonorrhea is "no worse than a bad cold...