An infection of the vulva and vagina due to the gonococcus or to some other germ is very common in little girls.
The vagina is seldom attacked in adult women, because the mucous membrane of the adult vagina is rather tough and does not offer a good soil for the development of the gonococcus germ.
The gonococcus remains virulent for two or three years at the least in a man's chronic gleet, and if he marries he infects his wife.
The Gonococcus can be carried into the eye by handling objects like soap, towels, wash-basins, which have been used by persons afflicted with gonorrhoea.
Even skilled surgery does not always cure, because it is practically impossible to get rid of the gonococcus once it has been fixed in the tissues.
Pregnant women are more liable to infection by the gonococcus than non-gravid women, because of the increased blood supply to the generative organs in gestation, and the softening of these organs.
Norris[165] reports a case where the gonococcus was latent in a man for twenty years, and he then infected his wife and wished to divorce her until he found that he himself was at fault.
It may be caused by many kinds of toxic bacteria, but the worst cases are from the diphtheria bacillus (a very rare condition) and the gonococcus (a very frequent condition).
Owing to the persistence of the gonococcus in the uterine muscle, surgeons are inclined to the removal of the whole uterus and both tubes.
This test does not give a positive reaction where no gonorrhea is present, but it is often negative where the gonococcus is present.
In the other cases the body temperature did not go up so high, but the vitality of the gonococcus was evidently reduced, and under a few local injections they all disappeared.
It is not so discriminating as the gonococcus in its points of inoculation, nor is it as vulnerable to attack; and it is vastly more destructive to the tissues invaded.
Is due to infection by the gonococcus of Neisser (due to gonorrhea).
The majority of the severe cases is due to a poison (the gonococcus infection).
Since infection with the gonococcus produces the direst results, any claim which means in plain English that the remedy assists in producing a cure or in preventing infection with that organism cannot be condemned too strongly.
In my opinion I would emphasize the following: (1) There is absolutely nothing about the remedies directed specifically against the gonococcus and no evidence to show that any action against them is obtained.
Vaginal smears from the same persons were examined but it was possible to demonstrate the presence of the gonococcus in but five of them, although many of them show the presence of numerous pus corpuscles.
The gonococcus is distinguished by its failure to grow upon ordinary media.
The meningococcus is an intracellular diplococcus which often cannot be distinguished {269} from the gonococcus in stained smears (Fig.
He believes that over half the male population acquire a gonococcus infection at some period of their career.
The frequency ofgonococcus infection is much higher.
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