The medical treatment of gonococcus infection in women / by Ellice McDonald.

  • McDonald, Ellice, 1876-1955.
Date:
1908
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Credit: The medical treatment of gonococcus infection in women / by Ellice McDonald. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    class and that they are based on the state- ments of patients. It is probable, however, that the truth lies nearer Erb’s statements than the sweep- ing ones of Noeggerath. Erb’s percentage of infection of married women may be low, but even at that percentage it means that a considerable proportion of the community is infected by the gonococcus. When the infection in unmarried women is added to Erb’s percentage, which may be taken as a fair and low estimate of the amount of in- fection in married women, it rfieans that more than one woman in every twenty is in- fected by the gonococcus. Such prevalence surely warrants investigation and study of the cause and cure of the disease. Many investigators of this infection be- lieve that it is incurable, but more recent observations show that it not only may be but often is cured. Leipmann® believes that the affection is often cured, and that in one- half of the cases the infection does not rise above the internal os. There is no doubt that vulvar and cervical gonococcus infec- tion may be cured without its extension to the uterus and tubes, and if it is not directly cured, its extension upward may be pre- vented by appropriate treatment. The infection in women is seldom ac- quired by other means than sexual inter- course, although in little girls it is quite common for extra-sexual infection to occur.
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