Iatrogenic venereological complaints.

Case 1 The following was received from an ophthalmologist concerning a 46-year-old patient: "He has left hyalitis, which is secondary to cyclitis. The gonococcal complement-fixation test was weakly positive. I have told the patient the result of the blood test." The patient's wife had left him after hearing the diagnosis but later returned to him. So many positive gonococcal complement-fixation tests were reported at the time that my predecessor had ignored them completely. When the laboratory was changed, no further equivocal results were obtained.