Treatment of Gonorrhea.
We shall proceed now to describe briefly the general principles and methods of the treatment of Gonorrhea and its complications, as we believe that the intelligent understanding of these methods will help men afflicted with Gonorrhea to avoid blunders of self-doctoring and exploitation by ignorant impostors and unscrupulous medical quacks. The acquaintance with scientific methods of treatment of Gonorrhea considered the best at the present time should prove conclusively to these men that to protect themselves against dangerous complications and permanent injurious aftereffects of Gonorrhea, they should not trust their health either to friends ever ready with advice nor to the alluring and highsounding promises of quacks; it would show that there is no short cut to a cure of Gonorrhea; that this cure can be effected only by systematic and persistent treatment at the hands of a competent physician.
The first point of importance to remember in the treatment of Gonorrhea is that Gonorrhea is essentially a local disease, and that it penetrates into the blood in the whole system very seldom; in fact, only in one complication, Gonorrheal Rheumatism. This fact readily explains why the main treatment of Gonorrhea is local, and why the internal treatment with drugs is of secondary importance, and in many cases can be omitted altogether. Yet the public at large seems to believe as religiously as ever in the magic power of different potent drugs, such as “blue” capsules, cubeba, copaive balsams, santal oil, etc. This medical superstition unfortunately is encouraged and kept up by manufacturers and dispensers of these drugs for commercial reasons, as well as by many healers disqualified by the law or the lack of special training and equipment.