GONORRHŒAL MYOSITIS

Remarks on Gonorrhœal Rheumatism and Gonorrhœal Endo- and Peri-Carditis

Gonorrhceal rheumatism is not common in the female sex, nor is it, as a rule, a disease that afflicts several joints successively and evanescently in either sex, its tendency being rather to invade fibrous tissues and tendons, especially those of the knee and ankle-joints and plantar fascia, upon which it often concentrates its morbid influences. In the following two cases, in which the husband...

Metastatic Gonorrhœal Ophthalmia

^He ordinary form, or possibly one ought rather to say, the )Vell-recognised form, of gonorrhoeal ophthalmia or conjunctivitis ls the result of direct infection of the conjunctiva with pus from the urethra, and has the following marked characteristics. It ls at the onset unilateral, though after a time the second eye is Very apt to be infected from the first; the inflammation is violent; there ...

Gonorrhœal Infection in Women

A Case of Gonorrhœal Septicæmia

Sir,?The following case i8 worthy of publication : ?A dooly-bearer was admitted to hospital on the 11th November suffering from synovitis of the left knee, which from its appearance and the history of a recent discharge from the urethra was diagnosed as of gonorrhceal origin. Ordinary treatment was adopted, and the man's general health did not sesm impaired until the 4th December ; when he comp...

A Case of Gonorrhœal Pyelonephritis

S. S., a 20-year-old Indian Christian, was treated by me for primary syphilis last year and was cured. In February 1946 he exposed himself again and developed chancroid. No sooner did this heal, m about a fortnight, than he contracted a virulent type of gonorrhceal infection. When I saw him it was the fourth* day following exposure and the third* day from the start of symptoms. Besides the usua...