Word: gonorrhea
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...Penicillin is effective in staphylococcus infections (e.g., carbuncles, blood-poisoning), gonorrhea, syphilis, yaws, anthrax, some forms of gas gangrene, certain heart infections. But doctors warn that penicillin may cause a temporary rise in venereal disease since: 1) treatment looks so easy that prevention is relaxed; 2) quick penicillin treatment for gonorrhea may mask early symptoms of syphilis, so that a man may discover he has syphilis only after irreparable damage has been done. (Treatment for syphilis requires at least 20 times as much penicillin as for gonorrhea...
...place. A huge serological laboratory in a basement of Hillman Hospital, at the University of Alabama's medical school, examined as many as 15,000 blood specimens a day. The city blossomed with placards announcing "free treatment for syphilis." While they were about it, health officials offered voluntary gonorrhea treatments, exhorting the citizenry by posters, newspapers and spot radio announcements, with the promise: "PENICILLIN CURES GONORRHEA IN FOUR HOURS." The U.S. Public Health Service came across with the penicillin...
...long ago, "the clap" used to be considered "no worse than a bad cold." Thanks to this cavalier attitude, many a child has become blind, many a woman made sterile, many an,oldster made insane. Syphilis killed its thousands, but gonorrhea crippled its tens of thousands...
Ever since penicillin's potency against the gonococcus was discovered, health experts have hoped it would eventually provide a quick treatment that a doctor could give in his office. Hitherto gonorrhea patients have had to be hospitalized (expensive) or treated repeatedly (difficult because many are too irresponsible to keep appointments...
...Penicillin has become standard treatment for both syphilis and gonorrhea in the Army & Navy. In spite of a recent rise in venereal disease (mostly gonorrhea acquired in Europe), penicillin and other drugs have cut the time lost from venereal disease from 1,280 man-days per 1,000 men in 1940 to 200 at present. The average soldier with venereal disease now loses only a week from duty. One officer asked whether it would not be more economical to cut down prophylaxis and lectures, simply cure cases. The answer: no. ¶ The Army's Reconditioning Program (TIME...