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Treatment (Gleet is exceedingly difficult)

A gleet is exceedingly difficult to get rid of, and frequently defies every effort that is made for that purpose. It must be attempted, however, by the daily use of the cold bath, and thirty drops of the muriated tincture of iron, taken three times a day, for months, in a glass of the cold infusion of bark. The best advice to be given in this case is to apply at once to an intelligent, surgeon, who will prescribe injections of alum, sulphate of zinc, or nitrate of silver.

Involuntary Emissions.

Symptoms. An involuntary emission of semen during sleep, inducing great emaciation and debility. Treatment. Abstain from all sexual indulgence and lascivious ideas or books, sleep on a hard bed, use the cold bath daily, with a generous and nourishing diet. Chalybeate water and all the different preparations of iron, with the cold infusion of bark and elixir of vitriol, as directed for indigestion, should be freely employed.

Strictures.

Symptoms. A difficulty in passing water, which, instead of flowing in a full stream, either dribbles away, twists like a corkscrew, or splits and forks in two or three directions. They are occasioned by strong injections, long-continued or ill-treated clap. The cause, however, is not always to be satisfactorily ascertained.