_ powerful bracer in the whole compafs of 
- imthis fpecies of gleet, unlefs here be fomething in 
AND FAMILY DISPENSATORY: x 
tency be not quite conredted:: the ointment mutt be repeated, but in fmaller quanti- 
ties, and at longer. intervals, than before. Whatever way mercury is adminiltered, 
its ufe mutt be perfifted in as long as any viralency is fufpected to'remain. When 
the above treatment has removed the heat of urine, and forenefs of the genital parts 5 
when the quantity of running is confiderably leffened, without any pain or fwelling 
in the groin or tefticle fuperventing ; when the patient is free from involuntary 
erections; and laftly, when the running becomes pale, whitith, chick, void of ill 
fmell, and tenacious or ropy; when all or moft of thefe fymptoms appear, the go~ 
‘norrhoea is arrived at its laft ftage, and we may gradually proceed to treat it as a 
gleet with aftringent and agglutinating medicines. 
Or GLEETS. 
A GONORRHGEA frequently repeated, or improperly treated, often ends in a 
gleet, which may either proceed from rélaxation, or from fome remains of the difeaie. 
It is, however, of the greateft importance, in the cure of the gleet, to know from 
which of thefe caufes it proceeds. When the difcharge proves very obftinate, and 
receives little or no check from aftringent remedies, there i is ground | to fulpect that 
it is owing to the latter; but, if the drain is inconftant, and is chiefly ‘obfervable 
when the patient. is ftimulated by lafcivious ideas, or upon ftraining t to go to fool, 
_-we may reafonably conclude that it is chieAy owing to the former. In the cute of a 
gleet proceeding from relaxation, the principal defiga is to brace, and reftore a pro- 
per. degree of tenfion to the debilitated and relaxed veflels, For this purpole, be- 
fides the medicines recommended in the gonorrheea, the patient may have recourf€ to 
- ftronger.and more powerful aftringents, as the Peruvian bark, alum, vitriol, galls, 
-_tormentil, biftort, balauftines, tincture of gum-kino, &c, The in Is may be 
rendered more aftringent by the addition of a few grains of alum, or no ope be 
quantity of vitriol as far as the parts are able to bear it. The lait rernedy which we 
Y than which there is not perhaps a more 
fhall mention in this cafe is the cold bath Rage pan Ee a iced 
‘the conffitution ‘of the patient 
the ufé of the cold bathe 
which renders the ufe of it unfafe. : The chief objecti on iis from the former 
ifcera. 
are, a full habit, and an unfound ftate of the vi bleeding ; but the latter is 
‘may always be leffened, if not removed, by. purging, es a3 0 4 ae 
an unfurmountable obftacle, as the preffure of the wate much force upon the inger- 
of the external veffels, by throwing he blood wpainior mac 
f humours upon 
onal = ate apt-to pails oy: ca objection of this kind ‘ava the patient 
“5 i 13 ing fafting, for ches eck 
pases to plunge over head in water every morni mipttber. 
