Modern treatment of chronic urethritis

Abstract

1. 1. Chronic urethritis is preventable in the majority of cases. 2. 2. Chronic urethritis is essentially a urologic entity, entirely apart anatomically and clinically from its precursor, acute anterior urethritis. 3. 3. Cure is dependent on our ability to locate infected foci, and having located them, to eliminate or destroy the gonococci, and restore tissues to their normal condition if possible. 4. 4. Cooperation of the patient must be secured and is predicated on our imparting to him the knowledge requisite to his understanding the serious nature of his disease and its treatment. 5. 5. The successful treatment depends on conditions and circumstances and the reaction of tissues to it, and nowhere in the realm of medicine or surgery is the maxim of Aristotle more appropriate than when used with reference to the treatment of chronic urethritis: “Not too much, not too little.”