Sexual disease and its medical prevention / by H.N. Robson.

  • Robson, H. N.
Date:
1911
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Credit: Sexual disease and its medical prevention / by H.N. Robson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    if possible, the same substance that is used for prevention of syphilis should also be used for preventing gonorrhoea; and this may be found in the ointment invented by that learned patholo- gist, Professor Metchnikoff, and the prescription for which is to be found in the chapter on the prevention of syphilis (page 62). In the German navy an experiment was made in the Far East, with a view to decreasing the amount of gonorrhoea, and the results were so satisfactory that it has been extended, and similar measures adopted in the French army and also the navy. The German method consists in supplying the men with collapsible tubes, one containing the ointment for syphilis, and the other containing a preparation of protargol made up in petroleum jelly, strength three per cent., and used as a preventive against gonorrhoea. The French War Office has issued an order, dated 23rd September 1907, giving full instructions relative to venereal diseases, what the preventives are to be, and how they are to be used by the soldiers. The preventives are the calomel oint- ment for syphilis, and a solution of potassium permanganate, strength i in 5000, for gonorrhoea. This strength of i in 5000 is equivalent to one
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