Word: gonorrhea
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...prevent this dangerous self-dosing, 18 U.S. states and the Pure Food & Drug Administration have rules against sulfa sales without prescriptions. But bootleg sulfa is fairly easy to get. Chief customers: people with gonorrhea...
...people). But N.M.P.s' chief job is to care for their own people. Native diseases are bad: yaws (a childhood skin disease caused by a spirochete), malaria and blackwater fever, filariasis (worm infestation which frequently ends as elephantiasis). The imported diseases are often worse: diphtheria, gonorrhea, tuberculosis, leprosy, measles (which is often fatal to South Pacific natives who have not yet acquired immunity). The N.M.P.s vaccinate, fight mosquitoes, teach latrine building, operate for elephantiasis, give quinine, deliver babies. The slow increase of native populations on most Western Pacific Islands is largely due to their efforts...
...night. Later, he attends the University of Chicago by day, tends a gas station by night. He reads a lot, is shy with "good" girls, gets no where with the other kind. He loses his faith in God, his virginity, the grandmother who has raised him. He contracts gonorrhea, socialism, literary ambitions...
...cureall, penicillin has so far been uSed to treat only a limited group of infections: staphylococcus aureus (causing bone infections, cellulitis, face carbuncles, certain types of pneumonia), hemolytic streptococcus, gonorrhea...
...first 2,000,000 draftees examined in 44 States, 4.6% were rejected as syphilitic, 1.5% had gonorrhea. So reported U.S. Surgeon General Thomas Parran last week. By the time the Army reaches its 10,000,000-man goal (and if the present rate of infection is not lowered), 610,000 potential soldiers will have been incapacitated...