Part 62 (1/2)

_LOTION._--

b.i.+.c.hloride of mercury, 15 gr.

Lime water, 1 pt.

Shake well, and wash affected parts night and morning.

FOR ERUPTIONS ON TONGUE.--

Cyanide of silver, gr.

Powdered iridis, 2 gr.

Divide into 10 parts. To be rubbed on tongue once a day.

FOR ERUPTIONS IN SYPHILIS.--A 5 per cent. ointment of carbolic acid in a good preparation.

BUBO.

TREATMENT.--

Warm poultice of linseed meal, Mercurial plaster, Lead ointment.

GLEET (Chronic Clap).

1. SYMPTOMS.--When gonorrhoea is not cured at the end of twenty-one or twenty-eight days, at which time all {469} discharge should have ceased, we have a condition known as chronic clap, which is nothing more or less than gleet. At this time most of the symptoms have abated, and the princ.i.p.al one needing medical attention is the discharge, which is generally thin, and often only noticed in the morning on arising, when a scab will be noticed, glutinating the lips of the external orifice. Or, on pressing with the thumb and finger from behind, forward, a thin, white discharge can be noticed.

2. HOME TREATMENT.--The diet of patients affected with this disease is all-important, and should have careful attention. The things that should be avoided are highly spiced and stimulating foods and drinks, as all forms of alcohol, or those containing acids. Indulgence in impure thoughts is often sufficient to keep a discharge, on account of the excitement it produces to the sensitive organs, thus inducing erections, which always do harm.

3. GENERAL TREATMENT.--The best injection is:

Nitrate of silver, grain.

Pure water, 1 oz.

Inject three or four times a day after urinating.

STRICTURE OF THE URETHRA.

SYMPTOMS.--The patient experiences difficulty in voiding the urine, several ineffectual efforts being made before it will flow. The stream is diminished in size, of a flattened or spiral form, or divided in two or more parts, and does not flow with the usual force.

TREATMENT.--It is purely a surgical case and a competent surgeon must be consulted.

PHIMOSIS.

1. CAUSE.--Is a morbid condition of the p.e.n.i.s, in which the glans p.e.n.i.s cannot be uncovered, either on account of a congenital smallness of the orifice of the foreskin, or it may be due to the acute stage of gonorrhoea, or caused by the presence of soft chancre.

2. SYMPTOMS.--It is hardly necessary to give a description of the symptoms occurring in this condition, for it will be easily diagnosed, and its appearances are so indicative that all that is necessary is to study into its cause and treat the disease with reference to that.