Word: gonorrhea
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Said Dr. Long: "Instead of feeling miserable, as with the other sulfa* compounds, patients who have taken sulfadiazine feel fine next day and start asking for food." The drug, he told his colleagues, is apparently as effective as its relatives in cases of pneumonia, gonorrhea, various streptococcic and staphylococcic infections...
...past six years the Department built eleven health centres and a laboratory. Last year nearly 140,000 persons were X-rayed for tuberculosis - an all-time high - and hundreds of new cases discovered. The Department helped diagnose, treat and prevent such diseases as syphilis, gonorrhea, tuberculosis, pneumonia, typhoid, diphtheria. Private practitioners make ample use of the Department's laboratory service, which helps diagnose rare diseases such as parrot fever, leprosy, tularemia (rabbit fever...
...Hoosen never misses an opportunity to give mere man a piece of her mind. Once, when she was about to operate on a woman infected with gonorrhea, she learned that the patient had caught the disease from her husband. She sent for him forthwith, made him stand by and watch the operation. Thrice he fainted; thrice Dr. Van Hoosen called to her assistants: "Throw some water on him. . . . He's responsible for this thing and he's going to see it through...
Five of the girls had gonorrhea; none had syphilis...
...past ten years, fierce Dr. Paul John Hanzlik and his co-workers at Stanford University have been working to put bismuth into practical anti-syphilis pills. Recently they settled on a soluble sodium bismuthate compound which they called "sobisminol." Last week in the American Journal of Syphilis, Gonorrhea and Venereal Diseases they were able to publish an impressive summary of results...