Sentences with phrase «treat syphilis»

In 1923 Lenin's doctors treated him with salvarsan — the only drug specifically used to treat syphilis at that time.

They told the story of a man who devoted his life to conquering sexually transmitted diseases and led a 2 - year effort in Guatemala to monitor and treat syphilis and gonorrhea.

The remaining enamel traces were black, a sign that she had taken mercury, which was then used — ineffectively — to treat syphilis.

Until we learned to treat syphilis with antibiotics, it was one of the most common causes of dementia and was frequent among the insane.

Hypothesizing that «a decrease in the cost of syphilis due to penicillin [which, in 1943, was found to treat syphilis effectively] spurred an increase in risky non-traditional sex,» the Emory University economist Andrew Francis discovered evidence that «the era of modern sexuality originated in the mid to late 1950s,» prior to the debut of oral contraceptive pills in 1960.

He adds that Lenin's doctors used potassium iodine together with salvarsan, as was the custom in treating syphilis at the time.

Therefore, testing for and treating syphilis will also help to prevent the transmission of HIV infection in our community.

Not exact matches

Until Paul Ehrlich's discoveries, however, syphilis could not be treated effectively; indeed, not until the development of penicillin could such treatment be carried out easily and safely.

By 1902 editors of The American X-Ray Journal overenthusiastically estimated that 100 diseases could be treated with this invisible beam, including lupus, syphilis, and ringworm.

Is there a connection here between syphilis and Lyme disease, which is also caused by a spirochete and which is also said to be difficult to treat when diagnosed late?

If you treat the painless chancre in the first few days of infection, you may stop the bacterium before the symbiosis develops, but if you really get syphilis, all you can do is live with the spirochete.

Based on official records, documents released after the fall of the U.S.S.R., memoirs from Lenin's physicians, and other evidence, three Israeli doctors concluded in January that the Soviet leader was treated for syphilis as early as 1895.

WHO also revised guidelines for treating chlamydia and syphilis, two other important sexually transmitted infections for which resistance is less of a problem.

This is also an excellent herbal remedy for treating athlete's foot, vaginal yeast infections, scabbing pruritis, staphylococcus bacteria, varicose ulcers, Candida albicans, nail fungus, and even syphilis sores.

Archaeologists have found evidence that it was used medicinally for over 400 years to treat scarlet fever, syphilis, malaria, blood poisoning, and diphtheria.

Traditionally, it was used internally to treat ulcers, stomach inflammation, tuberculosis, jaundice and other liver diseases, syphilis, and menstrual problems.

Thanks to the discovery of penicillin in the early 20th century, syphilis and gonorrhoea can now be treated with antibiotics, but both infections were once incurable.

In its early stages, syphilis is easily treated with an antibiotic such as penicillin.

Some bacterial STDs, such as gonorrhea and syphilis, can do permanent damage if not treated in time.