Abstract:FIFTEEN years have elapsed since this subject was discussed before the Royal Society of Medicine. On that occasion Bensaude and Lambling [1] of Paris analysed a large series of cases, which they had investigated by the biological methods introduced by Frei [2], and claimed that lymphogranuloma venereum (L.G.V.) is the only important cause of fibrous stricture of the rectum, and, while other conditions, notably gonorrhoea, syphilis and chancroid, often accompany the stricture, they do not cause the stricture as… Show more
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