Word: gonorrhea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...apply a 1% solution of gamma-benzene hexachloride, either as a cream, lotion or shampoo, to the troubled area. Nevertheless, since the presence of Phthirus pubis is usually the result of sexual contact, he urges all physicians who come upon such scratching patients to examine them for gonorrhea and syphilis as well...
...detectives, Dr. Fiumara has analyzed his problem statistically. Only about 3% of Massachusetts' cases result from contact with prostitutes since, as Dr. Fiumara says, "even streetwalkers take pretty good care of themselves." Homosexual males account for 12%, and heterosexual free love for 85%. The highest incidence of gonorrhea is in the 20-to-24 age range, with teen-agers second. Most of these are 15 to 19, but some are only 13, and a few not yet in their teens...
...hear that a daughter may be infected, but can't hide something like jubilance if it's a son-the attitude of 'I didn't know Junior had it in him.' " This same nurse found a middle-class suburban girl in her teens, a gonorrhea victim, who gave her the names of 14 different contacts she had had in the previous three months...
...vomited. When he emerged, he fainted dead away. "Luckily," says the nurse, "he fainted right next to his well-stocked bar, so I just reached over and poured a bit of brandy into him." Restored, he named his contacts. Another homosexual who went voluntarily to the clinic took his gonorrhea diagnosis more realistically and returned a couple of days later with all 14 (twelve white, two Negroes) of his contacts. All tested positive...
...college senior (not a Harvard man) had the common complaint with an odd twist. He contracted gonorrhea four times last winter, though he insisted that he had only one girl friend. How had either of them caught gonorrhea? Probably, Dr. Fiumara speculated, at a marijuana bash that developed into a love-in. "I think I was always having relations with my girl friend," the student replied, "but I can't be sure-you get a bit fogged up." Said the girl: "Even at the parties, I always stay loyal to Jim-I think." Because the two did not have...