Word: gonorrhea
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...indicated, Dr. Porter, no surgeon, did the best he could without operating. When women standing around during a tough birth got hysterical, Dr. Porter shouted: "Shut up or I'll throw the whole goddamned bunch of you into the road." During one delivery of a young mother with gonorrhea, he picked up an infection, lost...
...read with interest your article on venereal disease statistics in the Sept. 4 issue of TIME, but your last statement stopped me cold. You said: "90% of gonorrhea cases are fixed up in six to eight hours." Even the most optimistic observer would hesitate to claim such results...
...trying to convince people that gonorrhea is "no worse than a bad cold...
...Army's overall rate, at an alltime low of 26 in 1943, rose to 33 in 1944, now ranges around 44. The rise is in gonorrhea alone. The syphilis rate has stayed at an alltime low of four...
...result many hidden cases were revealed. The letdown of victory has merely speeded the trend. But while case rates go up. days lost from duty go down. In 1939 an average Army VD case lost 42 days. In 1945 he loses five days or less; 90% of gonorrhea cases, are fixed up in six to eight hours...