A REPORT OF MERCUROCHROME THERAPY IN FOUR CASES OF GONORRHEA AND THEIR COMPLICATIONS

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Apropos of the brilliant results reported by Dr. Willis A. Whitman1in the treatment of gonorrhea and its complications, the following report may be of interest. REPORT OF CASES Case 1. —C. C., a man, aged 34, entered the hospital, June 28, 1924. Eight years before, he contracted gonorrheal urethritis, which was treated as usual. Four years later he developed urethral gleet and achy pain in both feet, these symptoms resisting all local treatment. Examination revealed a moderate amount of pus in the fluid expressed from the prostate and vesicles; there was a slight swelling and tenderness in the proximal joint of the small right toe. The Wassermann reaction of the blood and spinal fluid were negative at different times. At forty-eight hour intervals, he received four injections of mercurochrome-220 soluble in doses of 10, 14, 15 and 18 c.c., respectively. As the last dose produced colicky pain and

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