C. D. At nineteen, a timid bashful youth, for the first time infected with gonorrhœa, which he had enduringly borne for the last fortnight, having neglected until now to seek professional aid, although cajoled into the purchase and imbibing of some popular “never-failing antidote” for a “certain disease.” Symptoms: discharge _cured_? right testicle swollen, and treble the size of the other, and excruciatingly painful; frequent desire to pass water, pain in the groin and back, general lassitude, and a feeling of illness all over. Treatment: leeches, warm bath, bed, purging, fever medicines, cold lotions, hot fomentations, low diet and patience, a month’s imprisonment, and a slow recovery. Had the treatment of the first two cases been reversed, the results would have been very different: and had the last sought timely and efficient aid, he would have been spared much that he endured. However, to particularize the treatment for each symptom; to commence, I will request the reader to remember that on the first appearance of gonorrhœa, attended with an unusual inflammatory aspect, I practise, where permissible, venesection; if the case demand it not, at least there should be administered an aperient; let, therefore, a dose of opening medicine be taken immediately (Form 1). This is the first step toward reducing inflammatory action—the next should be directed toward allaying the local symptoms, by diminishing the nervous irritability of the urethric passage. With this view, no plan surpasses that of bathing the penis in warm water, or immersing the entire body in a warm bath. The former should be repeated several times in the day; the latter daily, or certainly on alternate days, so long as the severity lasts. By these means, the parts will be preserved clean, and will derive benefit from the soothing influence of warmth; and, in many cases, this will be the means of averting chordee or swelled testicle. Where, however, from peculiar circumstances, warm water and warm baths are not to be had, the penis should be bathed in _cold_ water, or encircled with pledgets of rags or lint, moistened with cold goulard or rose-water. Warm, however, is to be preferred, although cold water seldom fails of affording relief. To lessen the acrimony of the urine, which keeps up the irritability, and somewhat to lower the system, all strong drinks, such as ale, beer, wine, and spirits, should be avoided, and milk, tea, barley-water, toast and water, linseed tea, gum arabic in solution, and other such mucilaginous diluting liquors taken instead. The diet should be lowered: in fact, a spare regimen should be adopted, not wholly abstaining from animal food, but partaking of it only once in the day, and carefully excluding all salted meats, rich dishes, soups, gravies, &c. The usual employment should be suspended, and rest should be taken as much as possible in a recumbent posture.