Sexual disease and its medical prevention / by H.N. Robson.

  • Robson, H. N.
Date:
1911
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    grain of potassium permanganate, which may be bought in tabloid form, dissolved in half a pint of tepid water; and the entrance of the urethra should be gently, but not forcibly, syringed with the solution, with or without the further use of the ointments mentioned below. As stated above, it would be easier for the men if the same ointment were used for both purposes ; and as the gonococcus is always just inside the meatus urethrae to begin with, it ought to be possible to kill it on the spot by means of the calomel ointment. Mercuro-zinc-cyanide oint- ment effects this with a strength of i in 200 ; and the calomel ointment is of a strength of 33 per cent,, or 66 in 200, and this should be a lethal dose for any gonococcus. The main point is, whether the calomel ointment would injure the mucous membrane without killing the microbe ; tentative experiments tend to show that this is not the case, and Professor Metchnikoff has stated that it does not injure the tissues of the body. For the prevention of gonorrhoea, the way to use the calomel or mercuro-zinc-cyanide ointment is as follows :— The soldier or sailor should be instructed as to the far-reaching consequences of this disease, and G