Temporary relief, however, is not all that we want. It is no use to remove the effect, and leave the cause behind. The aid of medicine is indispensable. Formulæ of the most appropriate remedies will be found among the prescriptions. The general directions as to diet, regimen, and clothing, dispersed throughout these pages, must be strictly attended to. The stomach must not be at any time overloaded with indigestible food. Milk diet is the best; milk thickened with farinaceous food, mild tonics to restore the tone of the stomach and impart strength, alteratives, sarsaparilla (Form 58), the old Lisbon diet drink, and all the suggestions hitherto offered with a view of improving the constitution, should be carried into effect. SYPHILITIC SORE THROAT. THE period that elapses between the appearance of the primary and secondary symptoms has already been stated to vary from six weeks to six months; and some medical writers assert that, if months may elapse, upon the same principle years may, and therefore the patient who has once been afflicted with the primary form of the disease is never exempt from the liability of the secondary. That syphilis, and diseases resembling it, do occur at every period of life, is a fact of daily observation; and it is a matter of less moment to know whether the invalid has ever had chancre or bubo than is generally supposed, for the treatment of every form of syphilis, and complaints putting on like appearances, should be conducted on similar principles. If mercury do possess anti-venereal properties, it will be found no less obnoxious to ordinary sore throats, ordinary ulceration, and cutaneous disfigurement. The presence of any of the abovenamed diseases indicates a habit predisposed to their occurrence; and that susceptibility may be induced by a variety of causes, the most prominent of which are those that debilitate the constitution, such as syphilis itself, or the remedies exhibited for its extermination, cold, fever, intemperate or impoverished diet—all of which more or less abstract from, or derange the distribution of, nervous energy. As in the cure of these diseases, their removal depends upon an entire alteration of the system, upon that principle alone should mercury, or any other remedy be administered, not upon its supposed specific neutralizing or annihilating antisyphilitic power.