Word: gonorrhea
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Heilman and Wallace Edgar Herrell of the Mayo Clinic. Judging from their work and that of others, penicillin should be highly useful against an impressive array of bacteria: Staphylococcus aureus and Streptococcus pyogenes (pus formers), Diplococcus pneumoniae (usual germ of lobar pneumonia, often present in cerebrospinal meningitis and septicemia), gonorrhea germs, Neisseria intracellularis (cerebrospinal meningitis), Streptococcus viridans (heart infection), Actinomyces bovis (lumpy jaw of cattle...
...first U.S. trials of a sulfa drug was made in 1936 on a sinus infection of Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. (he was cured). Since then interest in sulfa cures has centered around other infections-pneumonia, gonorrhea, streptococcus diseases. But last week Eye, Ear, Nose & Throat Specialist Roland F. Marks of the University of California Medical School announced that sulfathiazole treatment for maxillary sinusitis (inflammation of cheek sinuses) improved 70% of his patients in three or four weeks. He recommends that doctors try the drug before resorting to surgery...
...Wilson's facts and figures: Although Britain's venereal-disease rate is low among nations, civilian infections of syphilis had increased from 5,000 in 1939 to 7,300 in 1941. Gonorrhea was about eight times as prevalent. Nearly 70,000 civilians had contracted one of the diseases in 1941. Added to the spread of the diseases within the military services, these figures mounted to a wartime increase...
...Dearborn Street. Those who wondered how such an institution could get a clientele were told that most of the patients will be prostitutes (who may come voluntarily or by commitment by the Women's Court). But the hospital's services (specialty: quick treatment for early syphilis and gonorrhea) will be free to all, with a full capacity of 2,500 patients a year. Support for the first year is a Federal Works Agency grant...
...second night we spent in the garden of a ruined dressing station along the shore in Matrûh. The Italians had left jars of salve, sulfanilamide, antiseptics, bandages and a big supply of drugs for treating gonorrhea. Though special toilets were built in the garden the Italians found the rooms of the villa more convenient...