Word: gonorrhea
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...loudest drums ever beaten on the once taboo topic of venereal disease were pummeled last week by the War Advertising Council. Launching a new poster campaign with the slogan HIDDEN ENEMY-V.D., the Council appealed to U.S. advertisers to unite in a nationwide drive against syphilis and gonorrhea...
...spite of Surgeon General Thomas Parran's efforts, the national fight against venereal disease has not been going well. Syphilis last year was up 21%; gonorrhea, 28%. Thirty states now require a Wassermann test of prospective brides and grooms, three more of grooms, three others an affidavit of freedom from infection. But these reach only a small proportion of the whole population...
...Navy now authorizes the use of penicillin in all cases of gonorrhea. The few cases which do not respond to it are still treated with sulfa drugs and/or with artificial fever...
...flasks. The tank ("submerged") method has saved much labor, cut the minimum cycle of the mold's growth from six to three days, helped cut the price of penicillin nearly 85%. Present average costs of penicillin treatments: $35 for severe septicemia (1,000,000 units), $5 for gonorrhea (150,000 units...
According to evidence in last week's Lancet, the new drug vivicillin (TIME, May 22) is not a good substitute for penicillin. The evidence (from a British military hospital): twelve cases of leg ulcers, carbuncles, boils, colitis, bacterial endocarditis, gonorrhea, septicemia which vivicillin failed to cure...