Abstract
My purpose in this note on the treatment of gonorrheal vaginitis in immature girls is to corroborate the work and observations of Lewis.1 Gonorrhea in young girls has always been the bugbear of the medical practitioner and seldom is cured short of months of intensive treatment. Because of the delicacy of the structures involved and the lack of cooperation on the part of the young patients, local treatment is difficult. At best, even in older girls, when cooperation is more readily obtained, treatment is long and tedious and highly unsatisfactory. Perhaps the reason for this is to be found in the peculiar microscopic changes in the generative tract of the immature girl, so splendidly shown by Schauffler and Kuhn.2 It has long been known that gonorrhea in the mature female seldom attacks the vaginal wall per se or, if it does, it is of short duration. Allen3