Word: gonorrhea
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...venereal-disease rate - 289 new cases per 100,000 - is high, but the rate for all Hawaii was 454 (1939). Gonorrhea has almost completely disappeared...
...Problem. If Messrs. Taft and Parran had made things difficult for the prostitute, why had the syphilis and gonorrhea rate among soldiers & sailors not decreased faster? Army Medical Corps doctors, who have been constantly tightening prophylactic measures, knew it really was going down, noted that it dropped (on the basis of incomplete averages) to an annual rate of 25 per 1,000 in November, December and January. But they knew, too, that they faced a problem spawned by war: nonprofessional prostitution...
...Heilman and Wallace Edgar Herrell of the Mayo Clinic. Judging from their work and that of others, penicillin should be highly useful against an impressive array of bacteria: Staphylococcus aureus and Streptococcus pyogenes (pus formers), Diplococcus pneumoniae (usual germ of lobar pneumonia, often present in cerebrospinal meningitis and septicemia), gonorrhea germs, Neisseria intracellularis (cerebrospinal meningitis), Streptococcus viridans (heart infection), Actinomyces bovis (lumpy jaw of cattle...
...first U.S. trials of a sulfa drug was made in 1936 on a sinus infection of Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. (he was cured). Since then interest in sulfa cures has centered around other infections-pneumonia, gonorrhea, streptococcus diseases. But last week Eye, Ear, Nose & Throat Specialist Roland F. Marks of the University of California Medical School announced that sulfathiazole treatment for maxillary sinusitis (inflammation of cheek sinuses) improved 70% of his patients in three or four weeks. He recommends that doctors try the drug before resorting to surgery...
...Wilson's facts and figures: Although Britain's venereal-disease rate is low among nations, civilian infections of syphilis had increased from 5,000 in 1939 to 7,300 in 1941. Gonorrhea was about eight times as prevalent. Nearly 70,000 civilians had contracted one of the diseases in 1941. Added to the spread of the diseases within the military services, these figures mounted to a wartime increase...