The Urologic And Cutaneous Review Volume 23 No 11

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 edition. Excerpt: ...with a similar attack of acute retention. The same condition was found and same course of events. After about one month of treatment he was able to empty his bladder completely. It has been over a year since his last attack, and he has remained perfectly well. It was interesting to observe the gradual decreasing curve of the residual urine as the strychnine was increased, and the increasing curve of the amount voided. 116 S. 10th Street, Philadelphia, Pa. PREVALENCE OF GONORRHEA--Interesting figures as to the prevalence of gonorrhea are found in the report of the Surgeon General of the Army for 1918. The proportion of recruits of draft age (21 to 31) who were found to have gonorrhea was between 2 and 3 per cent. Men from rural districts showed twice as much venereal disease as men from cities or thickly populated areas; colored troops showed two and one-half times as much as white troops. Gonococcus infection is seldom fatal to men; it is important because of the effect it has when transmitted to women, because of the sterility, both in men and women, which it may bring about, and because of the vast amount of time lost from productive labor by those affected. You know, without being told, the great number of operations upon women made necessary by gonococcus infection; you can imagine the suffering and the economic loss entailed thereby. Fifty per cent, of sterile marriages, according to Howard Kelly, are due to gonorrhea. As for the amount of time lost from work because of venereal disease, one has but to consider the fact that at the Massachusetts General Hospital alone, the 50 odd cases of gonorrhea who come daily for treatment lose 300 days per week or 15,000 days per year. (Smith--Bos. Med. & Surg. Jour.) THE EARLIEST EVIDENCE...