212 THE AMERICAN MONTHLY [Aug 
inoculated into the peritoneal eavity of animals, it gives 
rise to suppuration. All urethral inflammations are not 
caused by the gonococcus, and even in true gonorrhea all 
of the inflammatory symptoms do not depend upon the go- . 
nococcus, as the epithelial denudation following the dis-' 
ease permits the entrance of the common pus cocci of the 
urethra into the peri-urethral tissues. The peri-urethral 
Gonoeoccus of Neisser, from pus of a gonorrheal patient 
before treatment. 
abscesses and salpingitis, etc., not infrequently depend up-. 
on the ordinary pus-cocci and cases of gonorrhea with 
double orchitis and general septic infection with endo- 
carditis have happened in which the gonococcus played no 
role in the sepsis, which was found to be caused by a large 
dumb-bell cocus, which stained beautifully by Gram’s— 
method. Hence the difficulty of making a positive diag - ' 
nosis of urethritis attributable to the’ _oaptae genet : | 
