Word: gonorrhea
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Gonococcic Arthritis (a frequent product of gonorrhea) is the easiest form to cure. It usually settles in the knee, ankle or shoulder and cripples about one-fourth of its victims. But early dosing with sulfa drugs brings "striking improvement" within three days. Gouty arthritis-from which more & more U.S. men are suffering-is not curable, but colchicine (a drug from a European lilylike plant) relieves it "spectacularly," although colchicine is of no use in treating any other form of arthritis...
Sterile Women. Chief cause of barrenness in women is obstruction of the fallopian tubes. Tube closures are caused by gonorrhea, bungled abortions, other infections. About half of them cannot be repaired. Other closures can be opened by flushing iodized oil through the tubes. Sometimes a woman needs as many as ten or 15 oil treatments before conception occurs...
Somewhat different is the problem of venereal disease. In 1917, Army doctors had to accept men who were infected with syphilis and gonorrhea; today all men inducted are perfectly healthy, yet venereal disease, particularly gonorrhea, is now the Army's most serious medical problem. Many private physicians growl that their former patients-men who went to camp healthy-became infected within six months. At present the Army rate is close to that of the civilian population, as it tends to reflect the civilian rate in each neighborhood. Selective service examination figures vary from Florida (53.5 syphilitics...
...examinations and yellow passports: in San Antonio the girls are given modern treatment. On the second floor they fill out records telling a few facts about their customers. Then they are given a blood test. If infected, they are treated at once to make the diseases non-catching. For gonorrhea, they get sulfathiazole tablets; for syphilis, slow injections of neoarsphenamine and bismuth. Even if not infected, all of the 425 known prostitutes in town report to the clinic once a week...
...number of venereal disease rejects has declined from over 4% in 1917 to 1.62% in 1941. Most doctors believe that this decline is due to the powerful campaign of the U.S. Public Health Service against syphilis and gonorrhea...