very shortly after effected by means which I shall presently allude to. In all cases of suspicious connexion I recommend copious ablution as soon as possible.[1] The syringes I would advise to be used should have their points conically shelved off pear fashion; they fill up the urethra like a wedge, and prevent the immediate escape of the injection: all injections should be retained a few seconds, and then be allowed to flow out. It is seldom worth while to repeat the operation more than twice on an occasion; but that occasion may be resorted to two or three times a day. When the nitrate of silver is used, the syringe had better be made of glass. The nitrate of silver discolors the skin, linen, &c.; therefore gloves should be worn, and care taken that the fluid be not spilt over the person or dress, but should the skin be stained, it can be removed by a strong solution of hydriodate of potash. The plan of injection, I must remind the reader, is only applicable in early and old cases. The recent cases, as I have before stated, are less frequently before the medical man than what we may call a “ripe” gonorrhœa. The old cases present also some difference as to the cause of their continuance, and require also some difference in their treatment, and they will be introduced under the chapter headed “Gleet.” The symptoms of a clap, fully developed, are severe scalding, voluminous discharge, painful erections, local inflammation, probably phymosis or paraphymosis, glandular swellings, and possibly swelled testicle. But all cases of gonorrhœa are not ushered in with such severity; nor do many, if common cleanliness and quiet only be maintained, experience even the various accompaniments just described, and still fewer would if the following precautions and measures were used. The plan just laid down, may be called the surgical treatment of gonorrhœa; the following may be designated the _Medical_. This is divided into two methods—the one denominated the Antiphlogistic, the other Specific. The _Antiphlogistic_ is a term applied to medicines, plans of diet, and other circumstances, that tend to oppose inflammation by a diminution of the activity of the _vital powers_, whereby the inflammation is subdued, and nature rights herself again of her own accord. The _Specific_ implies a reliance upon a particular remedy, which is supposed at once to set about curing the disease, as, for instance, by giving Bark in Ague—Colchicum in Rheumatism—Cubebs or Copaiba in Gonorrhœa. Now, both these plans are successful in curing gonorrhœa; but the majority of medical men adopt the former method, inasmuch as although it but _quietly_ conducts the case to a successful termination, still it _does so_, whereas the specific, in unskilful hands, is often productive of many annoyances, much delay, and not always a cure.