Prognosis (Probable Duration and Curability of Gonorrhea).
Treatment of all deep chronic complications of Gonorrhea takes usually from two to six months, and sometimes longer if the case is neglected. Patience and persistence in treatment is an absolutely indispensable condition for success, and patients who take treatment for a while and then drop it because, in their opinion, their case is incurable are throwing away their only chance of cure. The fact of the matter is that chronic Gonorrhea, if treated properly and patiently, can be considered a thoroughly curable disease. The incurable cases make up not more than 5–10% of the total number of cases properly treated, and these few exceptions are usually neglected old strictures, which of all Gonorrheal complications are the hardest to cure.