Word: lymphogranuloma
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...River, N.Y. another Streptomyces was found to secrete a gold-colored, germ-killing substance. Dr. Benjamin M. Duggar, the discoverer, called this antibiotic aureomycin. First used on human patients at New York's Harlem Hospital by Dr. Louis T. Wright, the "gold dust" worked wonders for victims of lymphogranuloma. Like Chloromycetin, it deals with many of the rickettsias. In treating brucellosis (undulant fever), aureomycin is likely to replace the streptomycin-sulfadiazine combination much used at present...
...every one of the 10,000 supporting pylons: Pathologist Rigney D'Aunoy. Descendant of an old Creole family that moved to New Orleans around 1750, warm-hearted Dr. D'Aunoy (pronounced Doe-nwah) is No. 1 U. S. authority on the little-known third venereal disease, Lymphogranuloma inguinale...
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