Previously to the exhibition of tonic medicines, it is advisable to give a dose of ipecacuanha or antimonial wine. Gentle emetics are supposed to be of singular utility in this complaint, not only by cleansing the stomach and bowels, and making a revulsion of the humors from the inferior part of the body, but likewise by their exciting all the powers of the constitution to a more vigorous action. The bowels must be kept in a regular state by conjoining a few grains of rhubarb with some of the tonic medicines, or by taking occasionally, at bedtime, one of the aloetic, or aperient or diaphoretic pills; or, in the morning, a teaspoonful of Epsom salts dissolved in a tumbler of water. If there be a fulness of the stomach after eating, the tincture of rhubarb in small doses will excite digestion. In obstinate cases, it is often expedient to produce a change in the system, by giving a grain or two of calomel, or one of the mercurial pills at bedtime, until the gums become slightly affected, and then the cure may be completed by strengthening medicines, together with the shower bath. Besides tonics, stimulating medicines, such as commonly determine to the urinary passages, have very frequently been employed with great benefit. Of these, rosin in doses of ten grains in the yolk of an egg, or a spoonful of molasses, or balsam copaibæ in doses of a teaspoonful, or tincture of cantharides in doses of twenty or thirty drops in some mucilaginous drink, and taken three or four times a day, will be found most salutary. These means strike at the cause of the complaint; but if it do not remove the effect very soon, we are not to trust to them alone. For once a morbid secretion being excited, it is very apt to continue, although the exciting cause cease to operate. On this account, we ought, without delay, to have recourse to astringent injections, such as a strong decoction of red oak bark, with the addition of a little alum or a solution of alum in water. Half an ounce of the former to be dissolved in a bottle of water; which should be thrown into the vagina by means of a female syringe, two or three times a day. The celebrated Dr. Burns says, after many trials, he satisfied himself, that although assistance may be derived from internal medicines and the cold bath, yet the chief dependence is to be placed on astringent applications to the seat of the discharge; and these, where there is no fulness of the general system, nor any affection of the womb itself, are perfectly safe, and seldom fail in producing a cure.