The gonorrhœa or clap, commences with an agreeable tickling in the urethra, attended with a thin limpid ouzing, which however soon degenerates into a disagreeable pain. A discharge of sharp fœtid matter, gradually commences with a scalding of urine; the præpuce and glans sometimes swells, with inflammation and a painful involuntary erection, which adds considerable pain to the patient, and under which, the whole system seem disordered. When all these symptoms appear, there is no room left to doubt a confirmed clap. The first thing to be done, is to take some of the _fever powders_ (L) in order to promote a perspiration, and to abate the scalding of the urine. In the next place, and which is the principal object; have immediate recourse to my antacrid injection, which is simply this, No. XXI _Take clean water one ounce_, _Calomel_ (N) _one scruple_, _Mix it, and shake it when it is made use of._ Let this be injected up into the urethra, three times of the day, which if duely performed will stop the evil in its first bud; and prevent all the generally attending consequences. For it perfectly eradicates all the malignities of the venereal virus; prevents shankers, priapism, chordee, and any farther spreading of the infection. At the same time the calomel should be given internally; namely the pills, No. X. to be taken every morning one. _Of the Phimosis, and paraphimosis._ A Phimosis is when the præpuce is so swelled, that the glans cannot be uncovered; and a Paraphimosis is when the præpuce is swelled behind the glans, so as not to cover the glans. Either way proceeds from the venereal virus having insinuated itself into the præpuce. If the _injection_, No. XXI. is made use of in time, all this will be prevented; but sometimes it is of a very stubborn nature. If the inflammation is very great, the poultice, No. II. should immediately be applied, to which it will yield; being of a very powerful quality, particularly, if to the poultice _mercurial ointment_ (P) two drachmes is added, by which it becomes an immediate antidote to the venereal virus. _Of the Chordee, and Priapism._ A priapism is an involuntary erection; and the chordee is a stricture in the urethra, by which the penis is bent either ways, according to the seat of the contraction, this however is generally downwards; whereby it makes the involuntary erection prodigiously painful. It proceeds from some imprisoned virus in the urethra; which together with its contraction, irritates the penis to erection.