Flow Of Seed

 

                                                                      Gonorrhea 

The Roman physician Galen in 130 AD described the disease as an "involuntary escape of semen". 

The word itself derives from the Greek, meaning "the flow of seed". 

Pre-Antibiotic Era Treatment 

Gonorrhea 

Galen To Albert Neisser

Thayer Martin Agar

Thayer-Martin agar, a selective medium for culturing Neisseria gonorrhoeae and Neisseria meningitidis, was 

Initially developed by John D. Thayer and John E. Martin Jr. in 1964, with an improved formulation published in 1966. 

Then And Now 

Snapshot 

Gonorrhea: Oldest Known Human Diseases

Gonorrhea during the 19th century in Ferrara, referring to Campana's Pharmacopoeia and unpublished manuscripts concerning the treatment of this disease in medical practice. The remedies for gonorrhea adopted in the city were in line with those utilized in other countries. Among these, copaiba oleoresins have been demonstrated to have been efficacious in the past against gonococcal disease in popular medical use and, recently, against a large number of bacteria, fungi and protozoa, which will call for more in vitro and clinical studies to evaluate their real effectiveness on the N. gonorrheae bacterium.