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Louis J. Lancaster, MD
Seattle

JAMA. 1971;217(8):1106.

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To the Editor.—

An EDITORIAL in THE JOURNAL (216:1472, 1971) voiced great concern about rising incidences of venereal disease in America. If one were to recall the situation in America in the early 1940s one would find great similarities between the situation then and the one we now face. At that time, gonococcal infection was being treated with sulfonamides with poor results. Patients who were supposedly cured continued to have a thin serous discharge for several weeks to months, only to have recurrent infection.

Concern was voiced at that time about the methods of stopping the epidemic, but it was only stopped with the advent of penicillin. This was a highly effective treatment at that time, and it stopped the spread of gonorrhea quickly.

At the present time, we have an exact situation in America with the exception that the organisms are now resistant to penicillin. I have seen . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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