Results of clinical observations of the course of female genital gonorrhea processes under the control of the Bordet-Gengou reaction

Due to special difficulties often associated with complicated diagnostics, the so-called. closed gonorrhea of ​​the female genital organs with the presence of encapsulated foci in them, the scientific Thought of the researchers was tirelessly directed towards the search for such a diagnostic method that the establishment of the gonorrhea etiology of the disease would be beyond any doubt. One of these methods is the serological method, based on the well-known phenomenon discovered by the Belgian scientists Bogdet and Gengou in 1898. Its essence lies in the fact that specific antibodies are formed in the blood serum of an animal to which a foreign protein is parenterally administered. The detection of these specific antibodies in the blood serum of an animal makes it possible to judge the penetration of certain microbes into the body. This serological method, called the Bordet-Gengou reaction (B. G.), has now become widespread in the clinic of female gonorrhea and has the same significance for recognizing gonorrhea as Wasserman's reaction in syphilis.