These are the Cures[28] performed by my Method. They indeed are not numerous, but are sufficient to prove the Attempt as safe as it is rational: And whenever this Method shall be employed with Judgment, I have no Doubt but it will be attended with the same Success. But even allowing there is still much Room for Improvement, was the Question put to me, _Why I offer it now to the Public?_ my Answer is plain--_Because the actual Practise of treating this Disease is evidently wrong._--Thus pursuing a wrong Plan, not only the Hopes of the Patient are frustrated, but his Case becomes desperate. If one cannot always be the happy instrument of alleviating the Misery of the Unfortunate, it is, however, a sort of service tendered to them, to prevent their being made worse. On this Consideration I claim the indulgence of the Public. FINIS FOOTNOTES: [1] Ninth edition, vol. xv. p. 526. [2] _Academy_, September 23, 1882. [3] Page 17 of reprint. [4] _History of French Revolution_, vol. i. p. 216. [5] Page 7 of reprint. [6] Page 29 of reprint. [7] _Academy_, _loc. cit._ [8] If this essay should meet with approbation, I shall offer to the public a new method of radically curing gonorrhœas in a short time. [9] A proof of it is, that in this case the running is ever accompanied with a sensation of scalding, which is not felt in the other case. [10] I use the mucilage of marshmallows instead of oil, for it does not oppose the healing of ulcers as oily substances do. [11] Although the solution of sal ammoniac be a powerful dissolvent of callous substances, yet it does not injure sound parts. [12] This unguentum is but little, if at all, known in England. The formula of its composition is to be found in the _Paris_ dispensatory. [13] In _October 1769_. [14] When the difficulty of making water, which generally attends gleets, comes from any other cause but an irritation of the urethra; the removing of it requires a particular method. [15] Discretion is a part of the duty of a physician: But although ever so reluctant to see their names in public print, the gentlemen in question will not decline to appear in support of truth, if a private interview was desired by patients. I have their word for it. [16] Nor is this to be wondered at, considering how few Oculists, if any, are acquainted with Optics; a Science, however, absolutely necessary to investigate the Causes of Defects in Vision. Nay, since curing the Diseases of the Eye became a peculiar Branch of the Medical Art, it is wholly left to Operators, who in general do not know the Functions of the several Parts which constitute the Organ of Seeing, but are even ignorant of its Structure.