For instance, cubebs may be taken alone, in water, in doses of a tablespoonful twice or thrice daily. If cubebs produce no good effect in four or five days, it had better be discontinued, and other means sought after.
These proceedings usually carry the disease to a close, and, if no adventitious circumstances occur, successfully and speedily. It is well to deserve success, but it can not be always commanded.
The business engagements of young men render it almost impossible for them to devote that care and attention so importantly requisite; and few, consequently, will be found who will be fortunate enough to escape the usual concomitants of a gonorrhœa.
Where, therefore, the scalding or passing the urine is very severe, the pain may be mitigated by carefully injecting, previously to making water, either of the formulæ No. [11] or No. [12] (see Formulæ annex) into the urethra.
The inflammation extends in general not more than two inches down that passage, so that much force is not required to inject the intended fluid, nor should an unnecessary quantity be used.
When the inflammation reaches the bladder—which is indicated by pain in that viscus and the perinœum, with a constant desire to pass water—the taking of a warm bath at a temperature of 100°, and remaining therein for a quarter of an hour, will afford essential relief.
When a chordee is attendant on a gonorrhœa, and the patient can not sleep, the draught (Form [13]) may be taken on going to bed, or the powder (Form [14]) in some gruel. The embrocation (Form [15]) rubbed on the parts affected, however, will instantly remove both the pain and the spasmodic contraction, and not unfrequently prevent their recurrence. Care must be taken that the embrocation be only used for its specific purpose, and not swallowed by mistake, as it is poisonous.
In the event of the patient being obliged to follow his ordinary occupation, or to go about, the use of a suspensory bandage will be found of great benefit; indeed it is indispensable, and the neglect of it has often brought on swelled testicle, or most excruciating chordee.