THE NEISSER OR GONOCOCCUS VACCINE IN GONORRHEAL AFFECTIONS OF THE GENITOURINARY TRACT.

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This paper embodies the results of my experiments with the gonococcus bacterin of vaccine. The report is merely tentative and preliminary; a subsequent report will probably give more valuable data concerning this form of treatment. For the last six or seven months I have extensively employed this method of treatment in a number of gonococcic affections invading the genitourinary organs. I have utilized the vaccine not only in the maladies engendered by the gonococcus primarily. but also in the various complications and sequelæ of this type of infection. The cases are varied and embrace different stages and forms of the original malady. The number of cases wherein opsonotherapy was employed was 54, comprising acute and chronic gonococcic urethritis, epididymitis, prostatitis, seminal vesiculitis, adenitis, gonorrheal vaginitis, gonococcic arthritis and the rarest sequelæ of gonorrhea—gonorrheal iritis. VALUE IN ACUTE AND CHRONIC CASES. In the acute stage of this affection the treatment was

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