“…gonorrhoeae may frequently be cultured from the lower genital tract in patients with salpingitis, and according to the results of such cultures the condition has usually been classified as gonorrhoeal or non-gonorrhoeal salpingitis. There has, however, been no unanimity as to the frequency with which N. gonorrhoeae causes the infection in the fallopian tubes themselves (Curtis, 1921;Studdiford, Casper, and Scadron, 1938;Hundley, Diehl, and Baggott, 1950). The frequent finding of N. gonorrhoeae in the lower genital tract in cases of salpingitis is in striking contrast to the rare finding of gonococci in the fallopian tubes.…”