Treating or effective against gonorrhea, a sexually transmitted bacterial infection characterized by an unusual discharge.
From anti- (against) + blennorrhagic (from Greek blenna discharge + rhagia bursting forth). The term emerged in the late 19th century when doctors developed treatments for this common venereal disease.
Before antibiotics, antiblennorrhagic treatments were crude—mercury was actually used as a medicine, which was almost as harmful as the disease itself, showing how medical history can be both fascinating and horrifying!
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