SUPPURATIVE MYOSITIS AND PURULENT ARTHRITIS COMPLICATING ACUTE GONORRHEA

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The rarity of suppurative gonococcic myositis and the recent interest in the effectiveness of penicillin in cases of gonococcic infections that are resistant to sulfonamide therapy1has prompted the present report. REPORT OF CASE A Negro youth aged 16, single, entered the hospital on May 20, 1943 complaining of pain and swelling in the left calf and left knee. Three weeks prior to entry, and four days after his last sexual exposure, the patient had noticed the onset of urinary frequency, burning and pyuria. Two days following the onset of urinary symptoms he applied for treatment in the genitourinary clinic of the outpatient department, where gonococci were cultured from the urethral exudate. He was given nine daily instillations of potassium permanganate solution into his anterior urethra, and sulfathiazole was prescribed for oral use. The patient took 4 Gm. of sulfathiazole on the first day and 3 Gm. daily for

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