Briefly to recapitulate, I consider, then—1. That the generative organs have ever been liable to disease from misuse; that the disease is variable and modifiable by many circumstances, such as have been before stated—namely, climate, age, constitution, and cause. 2. That it is contagious; mild cases usually producing mild consequences, but those depending much upon the treatment and health. 3. Newly-indisposed and severer cases, establishing a worse form of disease, alike modifiable by circumstances. I am not prepared to insist that the syphilis of the present time assumes the aspect as it did with the ancients, any more than I would affirm that it will be the same centuries hence: but I contend that all abuses of sexual pleasures will be surely followed by sexual disturbances, and that the most likely form of ailment is marked either by discharges or ulceration; that these diseases are simple or complicated, and all are separate in themselves. There is no fixed order in which what are called secondary symptoms occur. It may more usually happen that a sore throat will follow the healing of a bubo, as swelled testicle is more commonly subsequent to the occurrence of a gonorrhœal discharge; but in very many cases neither occur, or not in the succession stated. The anomalies in the disease I shall consider in describing the symptoms and treatment, when the reader will judge how far the view herein entertained, as to the origin and character of the disease, facilitates and simplifies its management and control. In conclusion of this part of our subject, I may state, that I believe the form and severity of any syphilitic disease depend more upon the state of health and other aptitudes of the party receiving, than of the one communicating the disease.