Word: gonorrhea
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...University of Pennsylvania Medical School, Barnes went to Heidelberg, earning his keep as a singer of Negro spirituals in a Bierstube. He and a brilliant young German student, Hermann Hille. worked out the formula for Argyrol, a mild silver protein solution for which doctors had many uses-to treat gonorrhea, including gonorrheal blindness, relieve severe nasal congestion. Argyrol, manufactured in a former flophouse in Philadelphia, was an instant and worldwide success, and Barnes was a million aire before he was 35. In 1928, with superb timing, Barnes sold out Argyrol for an estimated $4,000,000, not long before...
Penicillin cut the U.S. syphilis rate from 234.7 cases in each 100,000 population in 1948 to only 68.5 in 1958, the gonorrhea rate from 252 to 129.3. Unfortunately, the public's old terror of venereal disease gave way to overconfidence, a one-third cut in VD-control funds. The rate of VD decline began to level off five years ago, by last year seemed ready to rise again...
Last week the American Social Health Association and two other national health organizations, tallying up figures for fiscal 1959, reported a general VD rise in 29 U.S. states and 49 major cities. For the country as a whole, the syphilis rate was up 1.2%, gonorrhea up 6.3%. In a pattern that threatens faster rises in the near future, health officers found 22.8% more cases of syphilis in its early infectious stages...
...himself a name around the island as a big man with the native girls, and as a brawler. He was tried for the murder of a native, and barely escaped a long prison term. Back in Sydney to cool off (and to take treatment for a virulent dose of gonorrhea), Errol got a job as a bottle smeller for a soft-drink company, i.e., he sniffed empty bottles to detect kerosene, etc., to discover which bottles needed special washing. Later he was the gigolo of a wealthy middle-aged woman who "woke my understanding of the possible wonder and diversity...
...earth and sky) and nagas (dragon spirits who inhabit rivers), but the prevalent Lao tian faith is Buddhism, with its strong emphasis on harming no living creature. Some medical men attribute the lack of aggressiveness among Laotians to disease rather than Buddhism or innate gentleness. Malaria, yaws, gonorrhea and kwashiorkor (an often fatal protein deficiency) are common; an estimated 50% of Laotian children die in childbirth or infancy. But to all disasters of body or soul, pious Laotians murmur in the words of one of their poets: "For our sins committed in an other world we are in these days...