Acute gonococcal urethritis in the male / by Victor Cox Pedersen.

  • Pedersen, Victor Cox, 1867-1958.
Date:
1913
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Credit: Acute gonococcal urethritis in the male / by Victor Cox Pedersen. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    WITH THE COMPLIMEN Reprinted from the New Yc February II ACUTE GONOCOCCAL URETHRITIS IN THE MALE.* By Victor Cox Pedersen, A. M., M. D., The medical profession has taken about a gener- ation to correct the former complacent vagary as to the unimportance of the nature of gonococcal ure- thritis, wrongly called gonorrhea, because it is not, as the Greeks supposed, a loss of the sexual element in either sex. The disease is no longer regarded as a simple, severe catarrh of the mucous membrane, with an early mucopurulent and later purulent dis- charge, but as a vicious, persistent, treacherous, and, in both sexes, more or less invalidating and sterilizing disease. It is known to attack at all ages, both sexes, and persons in every civil condition, not excluding even the clergy. In contradistinction from the easy going vagary just alluded to, the specialist and authority ©f to-day is almost in a state of nightmare and remorse as to the ravages of this disease. These ravages are pri- marily due to the seemingly fixed, lamentable indif- ference concerning gonococcal invasion by the aver- age family practitioner, and secondarily due to the good natured ignorance and the jocular attitude to- ward all venereal infection by its various victims, and finally due to the imperfections, limitations, and inexperience in treatment by the very men who meet this disease in the sum total most commonly, name- ly, the average practitioners. This is obviously true. The general practitioner, who, in a year, sees a dozen or two new cases of gonococcal infection is by no means doing a small venereal practice. •Read by invitation before the Williamsburgh Medical Society of Acute Gonococcal Infection.” Copyright, 1913, by A. R. Elliott Publishing Company. New York.