Word: gonorrhea
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...annually forbidden to attend school lest they infect other little girls with vaginitis. Fortnight ago Director William Freeman Snow of the American Social Hygiene Association collated data to show that in the nation there are 200,000 children known to be similarly infected. Actually the cause of vaginitis is gonorrhea which children contract usually by contact with their older sisters or mothers. Dr. Snow hoped that by publishing his statistics he might arouse the U. S. to a new sector of the venereal front now under attack by public health authorities...
...months later Dr. John Huberman of Newark, N. J. and Dr. Howard Harry Israeloff of nearby Irvington, collaborating, gave five children hypodermic injections of amniotin. an extract of the fluids in which unborn children float. They gave a sixth child amniotin by mouth. All six got rid of their gonorrhea in a few months...
Fortnight ago plain-speaking General Hugh Samuel Johnson was prepared to broadcast to the nation an address on "Public Enemies 1 & 2-the two Social or Venereal Diseases called Syphilis & Gonorrhea." When his time came to speak, General Johnson simply growled to an estimated 17,000,000 NBC listeners...
...Industrial School at Beloit roughly as a slum kindergarten compares to Bryn Mawr. Inmates of the N.T.S.G. were some 60 members of the U. S. capital's worst young female riffraff. Most were colored, some white. The majority were three-time offenders. Practically all had either syphilis or gonorrhea. The plant was an obsolete brick building, with badly ventilated rooms and few sanitary facilities. On the theory that the deplorable conditions at the N.T.S.G. existed partly because no one knew about them, Carrie Smith set out to make them known. Her campaign reached its peak when...
Most victims of last week's medical catastrophe suffered from gonorrhea, some had septic sore throats. Latest remedy for those grave conditions-and a good remedy in case of scarlet fever, erysipelas, and cerebrospinal meningitis-is sulfanilamide. Noting a great demand for sulfanilamide, 61-year-old Dr. Samuel Evans Massengill, who compounds veterinary medicines in a good-sized factory at Bristol, Tenn., this summer decided to add that drug to his line. Knowing that his Southern customers prefer their medicines in bottles,* he sought something in which to dissolve sulfanilamide, which had hitherto been taken in tablets and intravenous...