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Yaws, afflicting about a third of all Haitians, long confused with syphilis because of their loathesome, gaping sores. Spread mainly by flies, also by ticks, lice and bedbugs, yaws affect mostly Negroes, "is a consequence of abject poverty." It can be cured by salvarsan, but the process is costly, painful, interminable...
...Century Artist Hieronymus Bosch. The Smith works were as full of symbolism as the Freudian moon is of green cheese. Of Elements Which Cause Prostitution Mr.Smith explained: "The land is cushioned -the bowl has the sponge-the fern has futility-the anchor of hearts is ashore-the vulture disembowels. Salvarsan needles to the shamefully stricken-the wine is spilled-both eagles fly to the rescue. Shamefully she stands knee deep in classic water-her body eaten and pitted with holes. The preventative balloon trails sandbags. The body stands dissected by extant medieval concepts." Even without this explanation, the medallion still...
Syphilis is a conquered disease in one sense only-that the chemical means to obliterate it are on hand. Its real conquest is a problem of lining up the patients. Standard syphilis-destroyer is arsphenamine, the drug salvarsan ("606") which Germany's Paul Ehrlich concocted 30 years ago. Mercury and bismuth compounds are also useful. But all these drugs must be injected regularly over a long period (18 months to two years) and many patients heartily dislike injections and monotonous visits to the doctor. When their gross symptoms disappear, they often abandon treatment forthwith, still harboring the pale lurking...
Quickly nurse and doctor gave the other three patients intravenous injections of epinephrin as an antidote, but they had already turned pale, were staggering and clutching their throats. Two died, and one lay dangerously ill. They had all been given large doses of powerful arsphenamine (salvarsan, or 606, best treatment for early stages of syphilis) instead of the weaker derivative, neoarsphenamine, which contains less arsenic...
...notable drugs may poison the marrow in the bones, decrease the production of white blood cells, may cause death, and should be taken as medicine only with specific instructions from a well-informed doctor, said Dr. Roy Rack-ford Kracke, Atlanta blood specialist: amidopyrine, dinitrophenol, novaldin, antipyrine, sulfanilamide, sedormid, salvarsan...