AN ARTICLE CONTRIBUTED TO AN ANNIVERSARY VOLUME IN HONOR OF DOCTOR JOSEPH HERSEY PRATT
Authors: WALTER R. STEINER
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1938)

Article1 February 1938AN ARTICLE CONTRIBUTED TO AN ANNIVERSARY VOLUME IN HONOR OF DOCTOR JOSEPH HERSEY PRATTGONORRHEAL ENDOCARDITIS WITH BILATERAL PAROTITIS AND TOXIC JAUNDICE AS ADDITIONAL COMPLICATIONS*WALTER R. STEINER, M.D., LOFTUS L. WALTON, M.D.WALTER R. STEINER, M.D.Search for more papers by this author, LOFTUS L. WALTON, M.D.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-11-8-1464 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptThe first case of gonorrheal endocarditis in which the gonococcus was grown by blood culture, as well as by cultures from thrombi on the heart valves, was reported by Drs. Thayer and Blumer1in 1896, in the Johns Hopkins Hospital Bulletin. Previously, there had been a few cases in which the organism found in endocarditis was morphologically and tinctorally characteristic of the gonococcus. 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