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Gonococcal Disease Surgery: Patients with gonococcal prostatitis, seminal vesiculitis, epididymitis, salpingitis, or arthritis should be treated with bed rest and penicillin for 7 to 14 days or longer until Signs of the infection have subsided, and cultures are negative. Response to therapy usually occurs within 2 or 3 days, but arthritis often responds more slowly, and it may take 7 to 10 days for the patient's fever to subside. Patients who are allergic to penicillin may be treated with a tetra-cycline or erythromycin.
In acute gonococcal disease surgery is indicated only for the drainage of abscesses. However, in chronic cases it may be necessary to remove some involved pelvic organs.
ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY was founded in 1901 by John D. Rockefeller, Sr., "to conduct, assist, and encourage investigations in the sciences and arts of hygiene, medicine and surgery, and allied subjects, in the nature and causes of disease and the methods of its prevention and treatment, and to make knowledge relat-bg to these various subjects available for the protection of the health of the public and the mproved treatment of disease and injury."
The two main organs in the thorax—the heart and the lungs—constitute the area of concentration of two surgical subspecialties—cardiac surgery and pulmonary surgery. The methods of treatment employed in thoracic surgery vary—from the use of cobalt radiation to the use of materials such as Teflon fabric for the repair of defective heart valves. |
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