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

  • Robson, H. N.
Date:
1911
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    what micro-organism is setting up the inflamma- tion in any given case. Gonorrhoeal arthritis, or inflammation of the joints, is a most serious thing, and Davies-Colley says it is as common in women as in men; it leads to permanent stiffening, or even fixing of a knee, elbow, wrist, or other joints, when it is euphemistic- ally called an incurable rheumatism, although rheumatism has nothing whatever to do with it. The most important facts in human life arising from gonorrhoea, are the effect upon the happiness of marriage and the sterility it causes in both sexes. The way in which it affects the female has been shown above ; it is also the commonest cause of absolute sterility in the male, by inflammatory conditions in the prostate, and by the blocking up of the ducts which convey and contain the semen. In the divorce court most suits arise in childless marriages, as they cause dissatisfaction to both parties, but the blame is usually ascribed to the wife. One of the pathetic features of life is the woman balked of her instinctive desire to have a child, and she goes from doctor to surgeon and surgeon to doctor, in the vain hope of being cured of her sterility, and all the while she may be merely married to a husband who has been ren-