Word: gonorrhea
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Electric heat. Most spectacular development in electric heat is the artificial-fever machine, introduced in 1931 by Willis Rodney Whitney, vice president of General Electric. Electrically heated cabinets, resembling huge coffins, can raise human temperatures up to 107.5 degrees. Several ten-hour sessions in a hot box will cure gonorrhea, relieve types of arthritis and asthma. Since the treatment is something like a short trek across the Sahara without water, few patients willingly endure...
When, three years ago, doctors learned the spectacular, four-day, 40? sulfanilamide cure for gonorrhea, they gave a short, loud hail, straightway began the practice of dosing their patients with sulfanilamide tablets for a week or two, then discharging them as cured...
Last fortnight, in the American Journal of Public Health, Drs. Charles Milton Carpenter and Robert Sturgeon Westphal, bacteriologists of the University of Rochester, shocked the medical world with some dismal after-facts on sulfanilamide and gonorrhea. It is true, said they, that the drug removes the symptoms of gonorrhea. But patients often harbor the germs long after they are pronounced cured, thus becoming "gonorrhea carriers," able to infect other people, though apparently hale themselves...
That there are gonorrhea carriers, doctors have long known. Drs. Carpenter and Westphal found that sulfanilamide produced carriers when they examined over a thousand inmates of New York State's model Attica Prison. Of these, 392 had once had gonorrhea. All had been discharged by doctors as cured. When the bacteriologists made careful germ cultures from their patients' specimens, they found that eleven men still harbored gonococci...
...People just don't have money for hospital service"-so Breathitt's only hospital is closing. The hospital doctor is going away, leaving only two physicians and young, overworked County Health Officer Frank K. Sewell to cope with the trachoma (eye inflammation), syphilis, gonorrhea in Breathitt's remote mountain shacks. To get to Morris Fork for a clinic once every six weeks, Dr. Sewell has to ride mule-back or walk the last five miles across two mountains...