Word: gonorrhea
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...clean bill of health from a reputable physician. In the reporter's pocket would be a savings bankbook showing a modest balance. The "patient" would tearfully confess to the quack that he was about to be married but had reason to suspect that he had been exposed to gonorrhea. With his clothes left in an anteroom where the doctor's assistant could easily find and examine the bankbook, the reporter underwent an examination. In every case the doctor gravely told him he was indeed badly infected. Price of a cure invariably conformed with the bankbook balance. It made...
...made the A. M. A. a great, potent organization; who, most of all, promulgated the doctrine of focal infection. More than any other physician, he traced human ailments to their remote and often obscure causes. definitely establishing that infected tonsils may cause blood poisoning, that gonorrhea may produce rheumatism, that a bad tooth may result in heart disease...
...radiotherm attracted the attention of General Motors' Mr. Kettering. Mr. Kettering, an inveterate tinker, took that first radiotherm to the Miami Valley Hospital at Dayton, where Dr. Simpson could experiment with it. It cured cases of syphilis (thus making Professor von Jauregg's troublesome malaria treatment obsolete), gonorrhea, rheumatism, colds and other ailments. But when the feverish patient broke into a sweat, the high frequency current tended to arc, thus burning his wet flesh. Mr. Kettering overcame that difficulty by fanning the patient dry with a blast of hot air from a new air conditioner which...
...General in charge of venereal disease control. As New York State's Commissioner of Health (salary $12,000), Dr. Parran began to spend $15,000 to $20,000 a year for prophylactic stations, clinics, moving pictures, lectures and pamphlets to teach New Yorkers the ravages of syphilis and gonorrhea, and to cure as many of those infected as could be induced to apply for treatment. Commissioner Parran wrote and lectured on the subject whenever he had the opportunity. Such an opportunity was presented to him last week in the form of 15 minutes broadcasting time scheduled over 60 stations...
...make certain, when they hire servants, that the help are healthy. But they cannot be sure with whom their employes run around on off days. This became shockingly evident when Dr. John Hawkins Irwin, Englewood health director, traced the eye infections and subsequent blindness of several Englewood children to gonorrhea in their nursemaids. So Englewood burghers had the Common Council pass an ordinance which went into effect this week. Like a similar ordinance of Newark (only other of its kind which Englewood knows of), it requires that every domestic servant in Englewood possess a certificate of health. Said Englewood...