Lymphogranuloma inguinale is an infectious process, apparently venereal, characterized clinically by an inguinal adenitis, usually ending in suppuration. First described by Nicolas, Favre and Durand1 in 1913, and frequently referred to as Nicolas-Favre disease, the condition has been also described as climatic bubo or tropical bubo. In early reports, the disease was considered limited to tropical regions, but in the last live or six years, with the assistance of a specific cutaneous test, the cases were found to be identical with a condition frequently met with in Germany and France, hitherto known as ``strumous bubo.''2 The latter condition, until recently, was much confused with inguinal adenitis due to tuberculosis, syphilis and soft chancre. Lately the disease has come to be known as lymphogranuloma inguinale, and many conditions previously called tuberculosis, chancroid, syphilis, venereal bubo, non-specific bubo, esthiomene,3 rectal stricture of unknown origin, and others, are now