Abstract
PENICILLIN given as a single injection in the beeswax and peanut oil mixture developed by Romansky<sup>1</sup>has been reported<sup>2</sup>to be from 80 to 100 per cent effective in the treatment of gonorrhea in adults. The present study was undertaken because to our knowledge the effectiveness of this method of administration of penicillin in a group of cases of vaginitis in children has not been reported. <h3>MATERIAL</h3> The patients were 20 Negro girls, ranging from 2 to 10 years of age, with uncomplicated, previously untreated gonococcic vaginitis (table). They were treated by the staff of the Chicago Municipal Social Hygiene Clinic between April 1945 and June 1946. Purulent or mucopurulent vulvovaginal exudate was present in each patient with local inflammatory signs of varying degree, often mild. At least one smear of the vaginal secretion showed typical gram-negative intracellular diplococci before treatment, which was not withheld pending report of
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