Gonorrheal Pharyngitis

Abstract

BOSTONGONORRHEA has the distinction of being not only the most prevalent of the 5 venereal diseases but also the oldest. Descriptions of the disease may be found in the fifteenth chapter of the Book of Leviticus (about 1500 B.C.). Gonorrhea was known to Hippocrates (400 B.C.), who called it "strangury," but it was Galen (130 A.D.), the Greek physician practicing in Rome, who called it gonorrhea.Gonorrhea, prevalent in Europe during the fifteenth century, was brought to America by Columbus's crew, who cohabited with the brown maidens of Hispaniola. These sailors in return were infected with the "Indian measles," . . .