SEMINAL VESICLE INFECTIONS AS THE CAUSE OF PERSISTENT URETHRAL DISCHARGE

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Abstract
This report is limited to the discussion of cases of acute urethritis in which the persistence of the discharge was thought due to infection of the seminal vesicles. In over 75 per cent, of cases in which the gonococcus invades the male urethra, it travels back of the cut-off muscle and into the posterior urethra, and in most, if not all of these, the ejaculatory ducts and subsequently the seminal vesicles become involved. When this condition prevails, the disease must be considered a genital tract as well as a urethral infection. If the assumption is correct that most posterior urethral infections are complicated by involvement of the seminal vesicles, do we do our patients justice when we limit our treatment to urethral medication? It is only of late that the treatment of the seminal vesicles has been considered worthy of attention, and as a matter of fact the handling of

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