TREATMENT OF GONORRHOEA WITH PHENETHICILLIN (BROXIL)*t BY

ethicillin) when given orally, is claimed to give penicillin blood levels two or three times as high as those obtained by penicillin V, and at least equal to those obtained by intramuscular injections of penicillin G. A trial of this drug in the treatment of gonorrhoea in male patients was started in Novem-ber, 1959. Material The patients treated with Broxil were taken from those attending the clinic at St. Mary's Hospital London, with acute gonococcal urethritis, both first attacks and re-infections. We excluded those about to leave the district and therefore unable to attend for routine follow-up, a small number with complications of gonorrhoea (e.g. epididymitis), those with genita