Excerpt from The Canada Medical Record, Vol. 13: March, 1885 We will now pass into the venereal ward, not, however, so much for the purpose of learning the signs, symptoms and pathology of venereal diseases (for there has been little change in the teaching on those points), as to acquire a knowledge of the latest and most approved methods of treatment. As faras I can learn, more importance is attached to irrigation of the urethra than to any other remedy for gonorrhoea. A bottle containing a gallon of warm water is placed near and slightly above the patient. A catheter (about N o. 6 in size) is introduced to the membranous portion of the urethra. To this instrument a tube passing from the faucet of the bottle is attached, and the water is allowed to run ad libitum. I think that the longer this is kept up and the oftener it is per formed the more sure and speedy will be the cure. Chancroids are, as of yore, cauterized and dressed with iodoform. The chancre of syphilis is simply kept clean and dusted with calomel, and if the sore heals kindly no internal remedies, save such as might be indicated to put the patient's system in good condition to resist the disease, are used until other symptoms present themselves, and then the favorite remedy is the famous pil. Duo which consists of one grain of sulphate of iron and two of blue mass, given three times a day. When, again, these symptoms have subsided the medicine is dropped. To make a long story short, instead oft so years of mercury the symptoms alone are treated. There is much logic in this plan of dealing with syphilis, but all will admit that it is easier to carry it out in hospital than in private practice, especially when it is known that the much-dreaded rash may be prevented or masked by continuous treatment from the date of the initial lesion. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.