Word: syphilologists
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Last week, before the National Academy of Sciences, Johns Hopkins' crack syphilologist, Dr. Joseph Earle Moore, trotted into the open a meager collection of recently discovered facts about penicillin (until now blanketed by wartime security): 1) instead of only one type of penicillin, there are at least four (arbitrarily named G, F, X, K); 2) type K is virtually useless because it is destroyed within the body so fast (in less than an hour) that it can't get set for a knockout punch at the germs. In trying to produce a purer form of penicillin, drug companies...
...Chicago street an elderly man upped to a perfect stranger and said: "Pardon me, may I test your blood?" The indignant citizen calmed down when he discovered who his questioner was: Dr. Oliver Clarence Wenger, top-flight syphilologist in the U.S. Public Health Service. This was the latest wrinkle in a much-wrinkled campaign against venereal disease which City and State health departments have been waging for four years...
...young Dr. Raul Morales, who also visited the U.S. last month. In this group are 100,000 white-collar workers of banks, shops, etc. They are treated by a staff of 300 doctors, who are paid about 20 pesos an hour (80?) for their work. Dr. Morales, a syphilologist, is most concerned with preventive medicine. Every member is X-rayed once a year, given a tuberculin test, a complete clinical examination, a Wassermann and Kahn test for syphilis. Whenever a member is found to have tuberculosis, syphilis, rheumatism or heart disease, he is immediately given treatment, paid his full salary...
...Eugene O'Neill with his 1936 Nobel Prize for work done in other years; in the Cinema only such as Robert Taylor with his 1936 profile. In Medicine there was in 1936 the Surgeon General of the U. S. Public Health Service, Dr. Thomas Parran Jr., the great syphilologist who this year got syphilis on the radio for the first time...
...last week's meeting of sanitarians Dr. Alfred Potter, Brooklyn syphilologist, estimated 10,000,000 U. S. cases of syphilis, active and arrested. Cried he: "In the area of the U. S. in which syphilis has been reportable since 1920 there have been reported 35,000 more cases of syphilis than of scarlet fever, 79,000 more cases than all forms of tuberculosis, 500,000 more cases than of diphtheria and five times as many cases as typhoid fever...