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Each then receives a drop of the silver solution, which is made just strong enough to kill any gonococci that might be present without itself inflaming the eye.

The gonococcus remains virulent for two or three years at the least in a man's chronic gleet, and if he marries he infects his wife.

The way in which infection mostly takes place is by direct transference by means of the hands, towels, &c. , of secretions containing gonococci either from the eye or from some other mucous membrane.

The gonococci become hidden in the folds of the deep parts of the mucous membrane, both in men and women, and cannot all be destroyed.

Pyogenic Diseases are met with in childhood and youth as a result of infection with the common pyogenic organisms, gonococci, pneumococci, or typhoid bacilli.