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TAI5K.LWUL15M51.fm Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2010 with funding from Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School http://www.archive.org/details/gonorrheainmalepOOwolb Gonorrhea in the Male H practical (3uiC>e to Its Xlreatment BY ABR. L. WOLBARST, M.D. Consu'tingGenitourinarySurgeon, Central IslipStateHospital; Visiting: Genitourinaryburgeon, Feople's Hospital, West Side German Dis- pensary and Beth Israel Hospital Dispensary; Professor of Genitourinary Diseases, New York School of Clinical Medicine MemberAmerican UrologicalAssociation, ; etc., etc. PUBLISHED BY THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SURGERY CO. NEW YORK 1911 HARVARD UNIVERSITY SCM*>eL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH Copyright 1911, by International Journal of Surgery Co. New York PREFACE. This little volume is made up of the series of articles on gonorrhea in the male, which appeared some months ago, in the International Journal of Surgery. The articles have been completely re- vised and brought up to date, in every particular. — It has but one purpose, and in this it finds whatever excuse is needed for inflicting another book on an already overburdened medical public, namely, to present the subject of gonorrhea in such a manner as to offer the general practitioner a work- ing knowledge of the disease and a practical method of treating it successfully. The methods of diagnosis and treatment advocated, are within easy reach of every physician, complicated and expen- sive instruments and apparatus are not required, and the results are based on a practical experience covering many thousands of successfully treated cases, in private and hospital practice. The author desires to emphasize the keynote in which this little book is pitched. He believes that considerable damage is being done by the preva- lent methods of treating gonorrhea, particularly in the respect of our remedies being too strong and being used with a vigor that is far too heroic for the delicate and inflamed tissues to bear with im- punity. If this work will be accepted as a plea for greater gentleness and conservatism in our therapy, not only as to the drugs we employ, but also as to the instruments we use, as well, it will have ac- complished all that the author could have hoped for. His thanks are extended to the publishers for: their uniform courtesy shown during the prepara- tion of this work and also to Messrs. George Tiemann & Co., for the loan of cuts used to illus- trate the text. He takes this opportunity to express his indebtedness to Dr. Martin W. Ware, of this city, for the many conservative teachings acquired while acting as his assistant during the years 1898- 1903, which have been of inestimable value in his professional work. ABR. L. WOLBARST. New York, December, 1910. ••I.Vs!';.::