Print
Word
PDF|
This section contains 147 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) |
|
In 1949 a nickel in a jukebox could get you a tune by balladeer Tom Glazer called "An Ignorant Cowboy." Its last verse twanged: Much on the range isn't likely to find Muse for a cowboy who's dead, lame or blind, So if you've known Katey, Please listen to this: Only a doctor can cure syphilis! The tune was part of a national health campaign against venereal disease sponsored by the United States Public Health Service which hoped to reach the estimated two million unreported syphilis victims in the United States. The objective was to get them to come forth and accept penicillin treatment. Each year saw 220,000 new cases — 373,296 cases were reported and treated in 1947, and 338,141 in 1948. Gonorrhea required one day of penicillin treatment. Syphilis took eight days.
Source: "Knock-Out Campaign," Time (11 July 1949): 47-48.
A Social Problem.
VD and "Victory Girls."
|
This section contains 147 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) |
|
