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Epididymitis, — Gonococcus bacterin is probably 

 of value in acute epididymitis (Fig. 53), although 

 the disease is prone to run a definite short course under 

 proper treatment without immunotherapy. It would 

 appear, however, that the employment of bacterin di- 



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Fig. 53. — Typhoid fever complicated by epididymitis. Observe transient slight 

 fall in temperature a few days after first inoculation of typho-bacterin, and the fall 

 by lysis after the second dose of bacterin. 



minishes the likelihood of a resultant inflammatory 

 nodule of the epididymis, at the same time reducing 

 the liability to sterility. In the chronic form due to 

 tuberculosis, tuberculin is of unquestionable value, 

 both diagnostically and therapeutically, although in 

 no small numbers of cases epididymectomy must be 



