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

  • Robson, H. N.
Date:
1911
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    conceals the disease by trying to cure it himself with the aid of a chemist or a quack, and the affair ends in complications of a serious character or a chronic gleet. Some are lucky and get rid of the infection, others are cured by good treatment in the hands of an up-to-date doctor; but in too many cases there remains a slight discharge, perhaps only noticeable in the morning, and this is due to gono- cocci being latent in the urethra, or to a stricture formed by chronic inflammation, with or without latent gonococci in addition. This is really the serious part of the whole business, as the delusion in regard to the harmlessness of a gleet still largely prevails amongst the public. Whilst in this con- dition, which may have lasted for months or years without attracting much notice, the man marries with the best intentions, in sheer ignorance of the far-reaching possibilities of his condition, and with- out any idea of inflicting injury upon anyone, and especially the bride of his choice. It is, therefore, imperative that the public should be made ac- quainted with the true character of gonorrhoea; false modesty and middle-class notions should be brushed aside, the prejudices and ignorances of the past should be abandoned, so that young men