he will in nine cases out of ten be found to have stricture. There are exceptions, which shall be named when speaking on the infirmities of the genital system, but in nearly all cases of impuissance there will be found, if not stricture, at least some morbid irritability of the urethra. During the existence of stricture, there is generally a vitiated secretion from the seat of mischief, constituting a gleet; therefore a gleet at all times should be regarded, lest it be an indication of something more than a mere weeping from enfeebled vessels. _On the Treatment of Stricture._—Having fully described the symptoms and progress of stricture, I proceed to the more pleasing part of treatment. Stricture, if early attended to, is a disease easy remediable: if neglected, its horrors accumulate, and sufferings the most acute close the scene. Such, however, is the progress of science, that it is almost possible to cure the most inveterate case, at all events to relieve it; but that is no reason why the initiatory notices should be disregarded. Stricture, as must be perceived, is of two kinds, spasmodic and permanent: the treatment of the first is chiefly medical, the treatment of the latter chiefly mechanical. The principal agents I rely upon in the cure of the former, are the warm bath, rest, sedatives, and certain dietetic restrictions; for the removal of the latter, I place unbounded confidence in the practice of _dilatation_; and I am of opinion that the other methods, namely, the application of caustic or the scalpel, might be dispensed with altogether, if the dilating method be not delayed too long. Before commencing the cure of stricture, I need hardly observe, that we ought to be fully satisfied of its existence. Symptoms are not always unerring guides; and, therefore, our reliance should not wholly depend on them. ——“to be once in doubt Is once to be resolved.” The only mode of ascertaining the precise condition of the urethra, is by an examination of it, which should not be delayed a moment after suspicion is entertained of the impending evil.