Where syphilitic eruptions terminate in ulceration, the same local treatment should be used as advised for chancres. Among the prescriptions will be found formulæ for many useful topical applications, such as ointments, lotions, and fumigations, for all the external developments of syphilitic disease, with appropriate observations appended to each. _Treatment of syphilitic sore throat._—It has already been mentioned, that the order of appearance of secondary symptoms depends more upon the modified state of health than any fixed law of disease. Syphilitic sore throat may precede or follow the cutaneous eruptions; and it not unfrequently happens, that all forms of the disease are present at the same time: therefore, although they are here separately considered, it will be found that the treatment corresponds nearly in all, the only difference being in the local applications. _Syphilitic sore throat_ consists of ulcerations of the _fauces_, _tonsils_, and _soft palate_. The inflammation begins in the part affected. There is a redness, and sensation of dryness. A small white spot is perceptible, which rapidly spreads, is detached, reappears, and in four-and-twenty hours, if seated on the tonsils, a cavity, as if a portion of them had been scooped out, is observable. The ulcer has a sharp margin, and its excavated surface is covered by a whitish or yellowish adhesive matter. At other times, the ulceration will be more superficial, but not less rapid in its progress, extending over the upper part of the palate, and back part of the throat. Here the general treatment is precisely the same as in the other forms of the disease, viz., rest, abstemiousness, low diet, aperient, saline, and alterative medicines, the blue pill, preparation of antimony, the bath, and total exclusion from all excitement. The topical treatment consists of fumigations, gargles, styptic lotions, nitrous acid gas, blisters over the larynx, rubbing in of any counter-irritating ointment; the object being throughout to watch, and endeavor to improve the patient’s health, support the strength, and mitigate and remove the local symptoms. In the affections of the nose and palate, the fumigations are indispensable; injections must also be used, and styptic lotions applied with a camel’s-hair brush. These cases are very tedious, and, fortunately, in the present day, of rarer occurrence than formerly; and the patient, thus severely attacked, would be more prudent to rely upon some confidential medical adviser, than to trust in his own management. _Treatment of venereal affections of the bones and joints._—Nodes are alleged, by medical men of great authority, to be of rare occurrence, except the patient has been taking mercury; but the observation is not always correct.