Capillarity Phenomena in Gonococcal Infection in the Male Urethra

Anatomically the male urethra is a potential cavity, the walls of which are normally kept in apposition except during micturition or emission of semen. During coitus, the penis, under the influence of erotic impulses, gets erected, swollen and hard which state makes the lumen of the urethra more firmly constricted?the walls of the urinary passage become temporarily more apposed. During this physiological condition of the penis, the actual process of transference of gonococci into the male urethra, and the distance covered by them at one stretch of ascendance, before they lodge themselves in some protected area just to spend their hours of incubation period, as a prelude to further upward invasion have, no doubt, much significance with reference to abortive or curative line of treatment. If the process of infection by the gonococcus, its first range of attack and the time taken for it, are ascertained, the modern conception of anterior urethral wash by antiseptics will be completely overhauled.