Our plan, however, is as follows: in the first place, I take into consideration the appearance of the patient; if he be strong, robust, sanguine, or of full habit, and youthful—if it be his first attack, and if the symptoms be ushered in with any degree of severity, I invariably and rigidly (where I choose not the surgical) pursue the antiphlogistic course of treatment; if the case be in a person of phlegmatic temperament, of mature age, and the disease be but a repetition of the past, and there be no evidence of physical excitement, I fearlessly adopt the specific. Where, in the third place, I encounter a patient with no very prominent peculiarity, nor with symptoms demanding extraordinarily active measures, experience has taught me the propriety of cautiously combining the two methods—a mild aperient had best always a precede a tonic or a stimulant, in cases where there is a doubt of inflammation lurking in the system; and, recollecting the tendency our complicated organization has, when assailed by a distemper, to become irritable, it is always as important to know when to withhold a remedy as when to prescribe one. The three following imaginary cases will serve as no inapt illustration of the principles laid down:— A. B. A man twenty-six years of age, five feet six inches in height, weighing eleven stone six pounds, of a full rounded form—florid complexion, of what is termed a sanguine temperament, and harassed with the following symptoms: profuse discharge in large yellow clotted lumps of gonorrhœal virus—intolerable scalding on passing water—great pain at the rectum at the close of micturition—redness and swelling of the orifice of the glans penis, puffiness of the prepuce, a _vicious_ chordee—inclination to headache—a bounding pulse—hot skin, and an anxious mind. Treatment: say first bleeding, then purging; warm bath, saline powders or mixtures, cold lotions to the part, rest, abstinence; the following eve, symptoms will be less severe. Continue the powders, temperance and quiet. In a few days, the discharge will be lessened, the scalding mitigated, the chordee gone, and the fever exchanged for the cool skin of health. The resuscitative powers of nature await only the fillip of some gentle stimulant, and the sick man throws off his mantle for the coronal of health. B. C. At twenty-three, dark countenance, marked features, well developed muscular form, pulse 66, bilious temperament, accustomed to late hours, hard drinking, and seldom still, and _subject_ to clap. Symptoms: plenteous discharge with but little scalding, and no inconvenience beyond the suspension of ordinary sensualities. Treatment: cleanliness, cubebs or copaiba, injections, a black draught, and half a dozen days’ rest, release him from his quarantine.