NON-VIRULENT CATARRH OF THE URETHRA. 99 



instances, the inflammation of other organs, as the prostate or bladder, 

 spreads to the urethra. 



The symptoms of non-virulent urethral catarrh are swelling and 

 redness at the meatus, painful burning along the urethra, especially 

 during micturition, and the discharge of a scanty mucous secretion. 

 All this usually subsides in a day or two without medical aid. The 

 more intense and protracted catarrh which accompanies a urethral 

 chancre however, is attended by purulent discharge, and may easily 

 be mistaken for a gonorrhoea. We shall have more to say as to the 

 distinction between the two conditions, in treating of urethral chancre. 



Avoidance of the causes from which the affection proceeds, and 

 removal of the conditions by which it is kept up, are the sole treatment 

 requisite for this unimportant and mild disease. 



Occasionally a simple catarrh of the urethra only shows itself by 

 adhesion of the lips of the urethra in the morning. Then the patient, 

 annoyed at the idea of having a gleet, presses and squeezes the penis 

 till he .brings out a little mucous discharge. This may be relieved by 

 warning him against thus irritating his urethra. 



