The time the injection and suppurative are to be continued, is likewise to be proportionate to the inveteracy of the disease, and must be longer if any astringent injection has been made use of, or any callous had been discovered in the urethra by passing the probe up to it.
When the use of this suppurative is discontinued, I employ another made with
| Gold lytharge | ℥ vj. |
| Oil of olives | ℥ xji. |
| Yellow wax | ʒ jv. |
| Venet. turpentine | ʒ ji. |
| Bol. Armœn | ʒ ji. |
Every day I render it less suppurative by mixing with it a few drops of Peruvian balsam, and continue its use till the ulcers are consolidated.
The space of time necessary to perfect the cure of slight gleets, is generally from twenty-five to thirty days; and of stubborn ones, seldom exceeds ten weeks.
But to these observations I must add a few others very material.
Sometimes patients who labour under these complaints, are of a habit of body scorbutic, or infected with the venereal taint; in such cases the humours ought to be purified, before the cure of the ulcers is attempted.
If the patient is of a phlegmatic or plethoric habit of body, the ulcers are always difficult to heal. A drachm of bark in powder should therefore be prescribed to be taken in a glass of red wine, every day during the treatment.
Such is my method of curing gleets; and if ten years practice attended with constant success, may be allowed a sufficient time to convince of its efficacy, I may confidently offer this my idea to the sensible practitioners, and flatter myself that every one who shall adopt it, will find the greatest satisfaction in this respect.
Among the great number of instances I could quote to evince its superiority over all other methods hitherto in vogue, I confine myself to the two following.