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Last fortnight, in the American Journal of Public Health, Drs. Charles Milton Carpenter and Robert Sturgeon Westphal, bacteriologists of the University of Rochester, shocked the medical world with some dismal after-facts on sulfanilamide and gonorrhea. It is true, said they, that the drug removes the symptoms of gonorrhea. But patients often harbor the germs long after they are pronounced cured, thus becoming "gonorrhea carriers," able to infect other people, though apparently hale themselves...
That there are gonorrhea carriers, doctors have long known. Drs. Carpenter and Westphal found that sulfanilamide produced carriers when they examined over a thousand inmates of New York State's model Attica Prison. Of these, 392 had once had gonorrhea. All had been discharged by doctors as cured. When the bacteriologists made careful germ cultures from their patients' specimens, they found that eleven men still harbored gonococci...
...Chicago, when Sheriff's Deputy Will Cabler from Brownsville, Tex., arrived to arrest W. H. Westphal on a charge of selling mortgaged property, Mrs. Westphal removed and locked up her husband's trousers. Will Cabler, unembarrassed, rode all the way home to Brownsville, sitting in the train seat behind trouserless W. H. Westphal...
...Columbia opened a browsing room in its new $4,000,000 library. Textbooks are banned, smoking permitted. Said Librarian Jean Westphal: "We plan to collect a gentleman's library and let the students use it just as the owner might...
Divorce Revealed. Sonia Abuza Tuck Westphal Lackerman ("Sophie Tucker"), 50, actress, oldtime singer; from her third husband, one Albert Lackerman, Manhattan dress merchant; in Chicago (September 1933). Grounds: cruelty, demands for money, slapping...