BRITISH JOURNAL OF VENEREAL DISEASES in
BRITISH JOURNAL OF VENEREAL DISEASES in
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英国性病杂志
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N. Fairley
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N. Fairley
MY own experience of climatic bubo or lymphogranuloma inguinale is limited to Indian and European sailors and others of the male sex returning from China, India, West Africa, South America and other tropical countries. It is undoubtedly more common in hot climates and amongst coloured people. The disease as we see it is characterised by subacute or chronic inflammatory changes in the inguinal or inguinal-cruro-iliac group of glands which frequently break down, suppurate and form sinuses. Periadenitis is marked. There is almost invariably a history of intercourse with coloured women during leave in ports. Constitutional symptoms are common, but by the time the patients are seen at the Hospital for Tropical Diseases the herpetiform primary lesions are not generally evident, and fever, if initially present, has often disappeared. Complications in the male include elephantiasis of the penis, scrotum and lower limbs, and in most instances at least follow radical excision of the glands. Stricture of the rectum is much rarer in males than in females. I have seen one such case in a male from South America; fistulae were present, and there was a history of gonorrhoeal proctitis and syphilitic infection as well. The Frei test in this case was positive. The historical aspects of the disease have been very ably reviewed by Stannus1 in his recent monograph on the subject and call for no reference here, except perhaps to point out that Manson, at the beginning of the present century, stated he had seen many cases of climatic bubo