Word: gonorrhea
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...another, the Public Health Service hoped to reach 96^ million people. Among them would be a high proportion of the unreported syphilis victims in the U.S., estimated at 2,000,000. The object was to persuade them to step forward and accept penicillin treatment (one day for gonorrhea, eight for syphilis). P.H.S. knows that the fight against syphilis is being slowly won: against some 220,-ooo new cases each year, 373,296 cases were reported and treated in 1947, and 338,141 last year...
...primary syphilis and gonorrhea could be cured simultaneously in three days with only one injection (45? worth of penicillin), it would be big medical news indeed. It was reported last week that such good news is not an impossible hope. Dr. R. C. Arnold of the U.S. Public Health Services' Venereal Disease Control Research Laboratory announced that in 85 test cases, a single injection of 300,000 units (one cubic centimeter) of penicillin made syphilis noninfectious within 72 hours, and has kept it that way for most patients during the six to eight months the experiment has been running...
Some penicillin treatments now in use for syphilis and gonorrhea: require as many as 100 consecutive injections over a period of eight days, use from 2,000,000 to 9,000,000 units of the drug. Secret of the speedup and increased effectiveness of the new penicillin treatment, still in the experimental stage: the drug is dissolved in oil with 2% aluminum monostearate. The process coats the penicillin particles, which are ordinarily absorbed in the bloodstream within two to four hours, and keeps them at work for 72 hours...
...Gonorrhea is apparently knocked out in six hours...
...Health Department was also handing out 500,000 pamphlets, written by U.S. Public Health Service experts. They were designed for distribution in bars, barbershops, drugstores, rooming houses and hotels; each has an appropriate cover, a list of gonorrhea symptoms, and the cheerful news that one injection of penicillin cures nine out of ten cases...