Word: gonorrhea
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...treats only a handful of syphilis cases annually. "With gonorrhea, and a 30,000 patient population, the rate is very low but not infinitesimal," said Dr. Preston K. Munter, assistant director of UHS. "We get only 50 to 60 cases a year, in spite of what seems to be going on in the population at large...
...curing venereal disease, gonorrhea in the female is the biggest clinical worry, according to both Dr. Prout and Dr. Nicholas J. Fiumara, director of the Massachusetts Division of Communicable and Venereal Diseases...
There are 20 cases of gonorrhea for each case of syphilis. Although men inevitably have a discharge and a sore if stricken by gonorrhea, two thirds of the female gonorrhea cases are asyptomatic. Fiumara, who is also a clinical instructor in dermatology at the Medical School, said, "The poor female doesn't know she has it unless the male tells her he's been exposed...
...first case of gonorrhea...
...Gonorrhea, now that's one word the kids in Hair wouldn't dare sing of! But it isn't poetry, either. A case could be made, I believe, that popular music rarely incorporates real honest-to-God poetry-even John Lennon's surrealistic verse depends heavily on the accompanying orchestration before exploding within us into patterns of subjective association-but in Brel's case I don't think the argument really has to be developed...