_Take vinegar, and water, each four ounces._ _Alum powdered half an ounce._ _Honey about a good spoonful._ This gargle should be used two or three times of the day——if it is warm, it is so much the more powerful——a mouthful at a time is sufficient. If the palate is down, No. XX _Take alum powdered, common salt, of each two drams, black pepper, ten grains, mix it into a powder._ Of this powder take a little on the tip of your spatula, and apply it to the palate, when it will immediately shrink up; and frequently make the person who before was hoarse, speak immediately quite clear again with a distinct voice; then proceed with the gargle as above directed. But if the sore throat is of a more malignant nature, the parts inflamed and swelled, the patient seeming almost strangled, and attended with a high fever; it is certainly the quincey, and should be treated accordingly. In this case you must bleed freely and repeatedly, and give the fever powders, as will be directed in the treatment of the fever, and the management of the quincey. The gargle notwithstanding should be plentifully used——a blistering plaister betwixt the shoulders, and if need requires, on the calves of the legs, the bigness of the palm of the hand, will also prove of singular service; and in every respect the treatment, as I shall observe under its proper head. ------------------------------------------- SECT. V. _Of the Venereal Disease_ I have written and published a full treatise of this disease; divided in three parts; namely, I. An anatomical and physiological description of the genital parts of both sexes. II. An ætiological enquiry in the various stages of this disease. III. A true and rational method of cure. Nevertheless I shall here concisely give a safe method of the cure, in its various local degrees. But to those who would wish to know more circumstantial the true nature of that malady, and of the animal œconomy, I must refer to the above treatise. The venereal disease may be considered in different degrees; namely the _first_ and _second infection_. To the first, I consider the gonorrhœa or clap, the phimosis, paraphimosis, chordee, priapism, shankers, dysuria, bubo, swelled testicles, and venereal excrescences, in their various degrees, in a local state. To the second infection, I consider those diseases that proceed from the venereal virus, infecting the whole mass of blood; namely cutaneous diseases; glandular diseases; diseases of the bones; dry pox; and the confirmed lues itself. The first infection is what I shall here briefly consider, and give such remedies, which though simple and few, will prove efficacious. But the second I shall here only consider in the general. _Of the Gonorrhœa_.