Social disease and its prevention.

  • Robson, Henry Naunton.
Date:
1909
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Credit: Social disease and its prevention. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    it is often neglected, and leads to serious trouble years after the original disease, in the shape of a stoppage of the urine; many cases are to be seen at hospitals in men whose families are just grow- ing up, and a serious operation is sometimes necessary. Another complication is inflamma- tion of the prostate, which is most difficult to treat and may become chronic ; enlargement and even cancer of the prostate has been ascribed to this condition. Cystitis, or inflammation of the bladder, is another most painful and not uncom- mon result of gonorrhoea, and may also take on a chronic form. The most important thing connected with gonorrhoea, from a social and marital point of view, is where the male or female has the disease in a latent or chronic form; as it is necessary to bear in mind that, although the male is usually at fault, it is possible for the fair sex to become infected either sexually or innocently. Widows may be left infected by their late husbands, or young girls may catch it from baths, towels, or from occupying the same bed with diseased mem- bers of their own sex ; whilst, epidemics of specific vulvo-vaginitis in children's hospitals have been recorded by many observers. In consequence of