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tained from expofing the penis to the fteam of warm water. 

 Poultices and fomentations, efpecially fuch as contain cam- 

 phor, are frequently produftive of benefit by removing the 

 inflammation. Opium given internally is of Angular fervice, 

 and is ftill more beneficial when joined with camphor. It 

 lefTens the pain and prevents ereftions, which arc the iramc- 

 •diatc caufe of the complaint. 



Whea the chordee continues after all the other fymptoms 

 are gone, the only remaining object is to promote the ab- 

 forption of the extravafated coagulable lymph, by friftion 

 with mercurial ointment on the parts. Mr. Hunter informs 

 us, that in one cafe confiderable benefit teemed to refult 

 'from giving, cicuta, after the common methods had failed. 

 Eleftricjty, he fays, may alfo b-J of fervice. A chordee is 

 often longer in difappcaring than cither the running or pain; 

 cbut, like moll of the confequences of iuflammatic n, its de- 

 clenfion is gradual and uniform. 



Mr. Hunter has feen the kind, of chordee, which feems to 

 ■depend on fpafm, relieved by bark. 



When the glands of the urethra fuppurate, Mr. Hunter 

 advifes the ufe of mercury, juft: as if the cafe were a chancre; 

 but. this practice is not deemed neceflary by the mod judi- 

 cious furgeona of the prefent day. It is proper to make an 

 early opening into the abfcefs, when Cowper's glands fup- 

 . purate, in order to prevent the matter from making its way 

 into the urethra or fcrotum. 



When the bladder is affeftrd with irritation, in conf*- 

 >quence of gonorrhoea, opiate clyfters, the warm bath, and 

 copious bleeding, are the cliief means of rehef. Leeches 

 applied to the perinaeum have alfo good effeds. Bleediiig, 

 however, in certain conftitutions, is hurtful, and fhould al- 

 ways be reforted to with caution. When the complaint 

 lalls very long, refilling ordinary methods, Mr. Hunter 

 fuggells the trial of an opiate plaller on the pubes, or fmall 

 of the back ; or a fmall bliller on the perina:um. 



The mode of treating a fwelling of the tellicle, we Ihall 

 confider under the head, Hernia Hamoralis. 



The decline of a gonorrhcea is generally known by the 

 pain becoming lefs, or changing into an itching, fimilar to 

 what is often felt in the beginning of the complaint, and 

 which at length goes away altogether. The fcnle of weari- 

 nefs about the Joins, hips, tefticles, and fcrotum is no longer 

 felt ; and the cherry-Uke appearance of the glans penis 

 gradually fubfides. The running diminilhes, or at all events 

 becomes whiter, then paler, and by degrees affumes a more 

 flimy confiftence, in proportion as it becomes more like 

 the natural fecretion, which is defigned to lubricate the 

 urethra. 



Recurrences of the difeafe every now and then are met 

 with, after the pain, difcharge, &c. have quite ceafed. 

 ■Such relapfes, however, are more common in women than 

 men, and the complaint is ufually in a milder form than 

 before. 



GONR.^, in Gtography, a town of Hindoollan, in 

 Bundelcund ; 20 miles N. of Callinger. 



GONS, a town of Hungary ; Z2 miles S.S.W. of 

 Zatmar. 



GONSALVO, Hehnandez De Corpova, in Bio- 

 yjaphy, an eminent Spanifh commander, was born in 1443, 

 'and ijrought up from a very early age to the profefiion of 

 arms. He fignalized himfelf in a war againfl Portugal, and 

 under the reign of the celebrated Ferdinand f nd Ifabella he 

 ftrved in the conqueil of Grenada. He was afterwards 

 employed to fuccour Ferdinand king of Naples againil 

 Charles VIII. of France, and by his affillance the whole of 

 tliat kingdom was recovered from the Frencli. Kings, how- 

 ever, iff* not always confident in their projefts, and. the 



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monarcli of Spain who had defended and favcd one king of 

 Naples, formed a projeft of fupplanting his fucceffor, and 

 making a partition of the country with Lewis XII. ot 

 France, and Gonfalvo was employed to execute the attempt. 

 The warrior was completely fuccefsful, and made Alphonfo, 

 fon of the kintr of Naples, his captive. Elated with his 

 fuccefs, and willing to lliew his moderation, Gonlalvo fwore 

 upon the holy lacrament, a wretched abufe of a religions 

 rite, that the young prince (lioidd enjoy his liberty ; but 

 after the fuirender was complete, and the time was come 

 when lie could execute his promile, he pretended that he 

 had received new orders from his own fovereign, which 

 obliged him to fend Alphonfo a prifoner into Spain. The 

 partitioning powers foon diiagreed among themfelves, and 

 the French, being in a greater ilatc of preparation, attacked, 

 defeated, and expelled the Spaniards from mod of the places 

 which they podefled. Gonfalvo was now compelled to 

 retire with his army, deditute of money, proviiions, and 

 ammunition. He retired, however, only to recruit liimielf, 

 which he had an opportunity of doing among the Veni-tians, 

 when he rallied, drove the French before him, and entered 

 Naples in triumph. Ferdinand, in the mean time, doubtful 

 of the event, had negociated a treaty with Lewis,i. confirm, 

 ing their former partition ; but upon the intelligence of the 

 great fuccefs of Gonfalvo, fuch was " Spanidi honour," 

 that he refufed to fign it, and the French were, by the efforts 

 of Gonfalvo, obligeil entirely to evacuate the kingdom of 

 Naples. For thefe and other eminent fervices, he not only 

 obtained the title of the " Great Captain,'' but was rewarded 

 by his fovereign with many valuable as well as honourable 

 pods of honour. He was made conftable of the kingdom 

 of Naples, raifed to the dukedoms of Terranova, St. An- 

 gelo, and other edates. He at length fell under the fuipi- 

 cion of his fovereign, who fent letters to recal him, which 

 •the general repeatedly eluded upon different pretexts. The 

 king determined to go to Naples, and was met at Genoa by 

 Gonfalvo. They entered Naples together in apparent har- 

 mony, and the king conferred an additional dukedom on 

 Ills " Great Captain,'' but Ferdinand thought it prudent, 

 in the following year, when he left Naples, to .take liis gene- 

 ral with him. At Savoaa they had an interview with Lewis 

 XII. who diewed his elleem for Gonlalvo, by decorating 

 him with a gold chain taken from Iiis own neck, and caufing 

 him to flip at the fame table with himfelf. At Venice alio 

 he received fome magnificent prefents. On his arrival in 

 Spain, he was commanded to retire to his own edate at 

 Grenada, where he died in 151 5, at the age of feventy- 

 two. Gonfalvo is dillinguilhed as a firm dilciphnarian, a 

 great mailer of the art of war, but as one «'ho was never 

 didinguilhed for generolity of fentiment. Univer. H.ill. 

 Moreri. 



GoNSALVO, St., in Geography, a town of Brazil, in 

 the government of St. Salvador ; 40 miles W. of Sergipe. 

 GONTAPILLY, a town of Hindoedan, in the circar 

 of Cicacole ; 2J miles S. of Coflimcotta 



GONUS, in Botany, from yom:, offspring, becaufe of its 

 plentiful produce. Lour. Cochinch. 65!^. — Clafs and order, 

 Polygamia Dioec'ia, Loureiro : rather Tetrandrla Tetragynia, 

 Nat. Ord. Tcrdintiuea, Jufl". ? 



By Loureiro's defcription of his only fpecies, G. amarif- 

 Jimiis, a dirub with pinnated ferrated Iiairy leaves, and by his 

 reference to Rumph. Amboin. Append, t. 15, it Ihonld feem 

 to be allied to Fagara, though the defcription of the pillil 

 and fruit does not exaftly anfvver. It agrees perhaps bell 

 with Brucea, Julf. 373, both in botanical charaders and 

 medical properties ; fee that article. Loureiro fays his plant 

 is found in the woods of Cliina and Cochinchina, and that 



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