Some data on gonococcal provocation in male gonorrhea

From the point of view of social and the possibility of spreading the infection, it is often necessary for venereologists to decide whether or not the patient's manifestations of the disease have disappeared, and whether he is no longer dangerous in the sense of infecting others. We will not dwell on the pathological and anatomical changes which develop in the urethra and in the glands adjacent to it, and which often lead to serious consequences; it is important to establish the point at which, according to Fronstein, "the repeated use of all the methods of investigation at our disposal cannot prove the presence of gonocococci in the body, nor can they be found even after a more or less long period of the usual life of the patient".