A Study of Non-Gonococcal Urethritis, presumably Venereal in Origin, Based upon 588 Infections in 529 Patients.

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Abstract
Gartman and Leibovitz set out to obtain an adequate clinical picture of non-gonococcal urethritis; to determine the etiology, and to outline a method of treatment. They found that out of a total of 1943 cases of non-gonococcal urethritis, 588 infections in 529 patients were intensively studied. Four hundred and forty patients were fully evaluated: in 62 (58.5%) of 106 controls the disease subsided spontaneously in 8 weeks. Three hundred of 378 (99.7%) were cured by one or more courses of specific antibiotic therapy; of those so cured 43 were abacterial infections, and 334 bacterial. Ninety-eight percent of the abacterial and 62.3% of the bacterial infections were cured by one course of medication. The remaining 126 bacterial infections averaged 3-4 courses of medication and required 2-7 months to cure. The probable etiology of the disease is still uncertain. Terramycin or Aureomycin is the recommended antibiotic in a dosage of 250 mg every 4 hours on a 24-hour basis for 1 week, or a total of 10.5 g. The progress of the disease should be followed by means of the multi-glass urine test. The patient should be asymptomatic and free from gross pyuria for a minimum of 2 weeks before inflicting trauma upon the urethra. If there is no relapse following trauma, he is cured.
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