Word: gonorrhea
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...Surgeon General of the U.S. Public Health Service for the past twelve years, once called his job "the most important public health position in the world, present or prospective." More than any other one man, Dr. Parran was responsible for breaking the taboo against using the words syphilis and gonorrhea in public (TIME, Oct. 26, 1936). By research and by blunt publicity campaigns, he led an anti-VD fight that has brought both syphilis and gonorrhea under more effective control...
Among the causes of male "sterility" (i.e., subnormal sperm production): mumps (after puberty), gonorrhea, malaria, hot baths, exposure to X rays and other atomic radiation. The chief cause of female sterility is blocked tubes. But contrary to popular notion, absolute sterility is rare. Failure to conceive is often due to fatigue, overweight, nervous strain, emotional tension between husband & wife, or simply too infrequent sexual relations. On more than one occasion, the Cleveland doctors have even discovered patients who were more innocent than Adam...
...rapid penicillin treatments, doctors think they have a tool which, if the public will cooperate, can almost eradicate venereal disease. Syphilis treatment: eight days, $52. Gonorrhea: one or two days...
...Doctors are making no headway against gonorrhea. One reason: the easy cure makes people careless about exposure...
...other episodes in Mister Roberts are just as simple-a quarrel between two roommates, the achievement of gonorrhea by a seaman at an apparently barren island-but they are told with aptitude and humor. Author Heggen, 27, who now writes for the Reader's Digest, served aboard an assault transport in the Pacific, at Guam, Peleliu, Iwo Jima and Okinawa, thereby seeing somewhat more action at sea than the Reluctant...