GONORRHŒAL VULVOVAGINITIS IN CHILDREN

Vulvovaginitis Among Female Children

Gonorrhœal Infection in Women

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...

Epidemiology of gonococcal vulvovaginitis among children in the tropics.

In a three-year prospective clinical study, 42 children aged between 1 and 12 years were found to have gonococcal vulvovaginitis. Epidemiological investigations showed that contaminated fomites--particularly bedclothing, underclothing, and towels--and precocious sexual intercourse were the important vehicles of transmission of gonococci to the genital tract of these children.

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 ...