Word: gonorrhea
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Next month Urologist John Archibald Campbell Colston of Johns Hopkins is to tell the convention of the American Medical Association a sensational piece of medical news: that he cures acute gonorrhea in four days with 40? worth of Prontylin. Prontylin is a new drug which cures many cases of blood poisoning (TIME, Dec. 28). Learning of Dr. Colston's forthcoming report and keenly aware of the nation's lively interest in the social disease which infects 2,000,000 U. S. men and women a year (twice as many as syphilis does), which is responsible for an inestimaable...
...vice president, who designed the hypertherm (air-conditioned hot box in which sick people may develop artificial fever) ; Dr. Walter Malcolm Simpson of Dayton, Ohio, Mr. Kettering's good friend who helped design the hypertherm, and who has written authoritatively on the use of artificial fevers in curing gonorrhea and early syphilis; and Dr. William Bierman of Manhattan, an early fever enthusiast who organized last week's conference on fever therapy...
Uses. Normal body temperature is 98.6° F. The body, however, can endure internal temperatures up to 107.5° F. without dying and at that high temperature will positively recover from an attack of gonorrhea; will usually recover from primary or secondary syphilis, especially if drugs containing arsenic are administered during the course of the fever treatment; will frequently recover from tertiary syphilis, including paresis...
Free Tests Sirs: In TIME, Feb. 15, under the heading "Great Pox," Nevada, together with three other States, is blacklisted for not affording free laboratory examinations to physicians in the diagnosis of syphilis and gonorrhea. To my personal knowledge our State Laboratory, which is under the control of the State University, has extended such service for the past 14 years and I understand, from reliable sources, since 1909. Last year 4,633 blood tests for syphilis and 1,130 examinations for gonorrhea were performed free of charge for the physicians of this State...
Said Dr. Wilbur: "When every American family sees that the children in each generation are taught the truth about syphilis and gonorrhea, how to avoid them and what to do if infected, we shall no longer see our young manhood and womanhood their chief victims.'' Said Dr. Parran: "There must be secured through the medical and other professional groups additional experienced personnel to provide for the necessary diagnosis, treatment and follow-up of all infected persons...