The same remedies as are pointed out in the course of this work, against the other consequences of pollution, are applicable in this case; the cold-bath, the bark, martials, and corroboratives. BOERHAAVE says, that the _hepatica_ (liverwort) produces excellent effects (_egregios sane præstat usus_) in the inveterate _gonorrhœa_, where it depends on the relaxation of the organs[156]. Sometimes, to direct the tendency which habit gives to humors towards the same part, it may not be amiss to begin by some laxatives: there are even some great Physicians, who have attributed to them an almost specific efficacy against this disorder; experience yet more than reason has proved to me the contrary. Those who will give themselves the trouble of reading the authors whom I have above quoted, will find that they prescribe nothing laxative. ACTUARIUS directs “things that strengthen without heating[157].” ARETÆUS, who, in consideration of the urgency of the danger, recommends an immediate recourse to remedies, prescribes none but strengtheners, abstinence from the pleasures of love, and the cold-bath[158]. CELSUS, of whose works both of them have availed themselves, orders frictions, and especially _baths extremely cold_, (_natationesque quam frigidissimas_;) he would have nothing eaten or drank but what is cold; that all aliments should be avoided which may engender crudities, wind, and augment the acridity of the seed. FERNELIUS orders nutritious aliments, and restorative electuaries[159]. If the promise of LANGIUS, who said “he would venture to swear for the efficacy of purgatives and a diet in the cure of this disorder,” be at all true, it cannot, probably, be relied on, but in that case alone, where the disorder is produced by a bad diet, which should have given birth to obstructions in the _hypogastrium_, and made all the humors degenerate, without the solids having as yet received any considerable damage; and this case it is that he must only have had in view; for if the solids had received any material prejudice, the purgatives must necessarily be aided by corroboratives. Such was the _gonorrhœa_ that REGIS observed, and of which CRAANEN has preserved to us the particulars. “A man (says he) of a pituitous constitution, having for along time used himself to a humid diet, was attacked with the running of a watery, crude, viscous humor, which came away without perceptible sensation. He was wasting away, his eyes grew hollow, and he felt a daily decay of his strength. REGIS began with him by evacuating with purgatives those pituitous humor.” After which he gave him corroboratives, analeptics, and desiccative aliments; and if that should not be sufficient, he advised him a caustic for each leg[160].