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

  • Robson, H. N.
Date:
1911
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    told that, if the risk of infection has been incurred, the ointment should be inserted within eight hours. He should first pass water; then press out what urine remains in the urethra; then dry the meatus or entrance with a handkerchief or anything of like material; and finally, place a piece of the ointment, equal in bulk to that of half an ordinary currant, about a quarter of an inch inside the meatus by means of the smooth end of a match. The piece of ointment should be left in for at least an hour, or all night, and is easily removed by merely passing water. These instructions apply equally well to the injection of the 3 per cent, protargol preparation used in the German army, or the i in 5000 solu- tion of potassium permanganate prescribed for the French army. Owing to idiosyncrasies or individual peculiari- ties in different people, it is not possible to state positively that the calomel ointment would not irritate the mucous membrane in some cases ; the whole method of prophylaxis is so modern that further experience and experiment are required. The difficulty of experiments is greatly in- creased by the fact that animals are immune to the gonococcus; and, therefore, human experi-