Excerpt from Common Disease of the Male Urethra: Being a Course of Lectures Delivered at the London Hospital
These lectures are the fruit of many years" study of the gonococcus as it lives in its natural habitat the human urethra. They contain deductions drawn from a research carried out on several thousand animal experiments made blindly by Nature in implanting the gonococcus on the human urethra. Each case has been studied by observations with instruments of precision from start to cure, careful records having been kept, and the results of different treatments having been noted. It would not be possible to append a detailed list of these cases and a complete analysis thereof. Nor do 1 think my readers would profit by such a list, even if they had the courage to read it. I think that they will learn more by receiving in these lectures some of the lessons which I have taught myself in the course of this study. Nevertheless those who crave for such things will find in Appendix II. the results obtained by a complete analysis of 180 consecutive cases.
I have thought it helpful to illustrate many of the statements made in the lectures by including in a separate appendix a number of cases pertinent to such statements. I am aware that statements of fact cannot be substantiated completely by citing isolated cases, but my readers must take it from me that where I mention only one or two cases in support of a statement it is not because I could not bring forward a great many more cases of similar nature, but because I do not wish to weary my reader with repetition of details and cause his interest to wane. This must be a sufficient excuse to those who may desire a more complete warrant for my statements.
It is at present too much the fashion to think that a bacterium can only be studied by growing it on an unnatural artificial medium in the laboratory. I am old-fashioned enough to think that a great deal can still be learnt by studying a bacterium living under natural conditions. Did not Jonathan Hutchinson gather a wonderful store of facts about "the virus" of syphilis by many years" patient study in the outpatient department of men and women infected by "the virus" under natural conditions?
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