Non-gonococcal urethritis in the male treated with tetracycline.

The Report of the Chief Medical Officer of the Ministry of Health for 1955 (Ministry of Health, 1956) states that the number of cases of nongonococcal urethritis in male patients increased during that year to a total of 14,269, and that the incidence of this condition exceeded that of gonorrhoea (14,079 cases). For this reason, and because the treatment of non-gonococcal urethritis has in the past proved unsatisfactory, any promising new therapy deserves the fullest investigation. In the series about to be described, 109 consecutive cases of non-gonococcal urethritis were each treated with 250 mg. tetracycline hydrochloride in capsule form every 6 hours for 5 days, i.e. a total dose of 5 g.