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Gleet.In many cases the discharge will be noticed only when the patient rises in the morning. There is no pain when the bladder is evacuated, no frequent desire to pass the water, in fact nothing wrong except the slight watery discharge. This is, however, most obstinate and difficult to get rid of; it frequently lasts for months, and in many instances even years may elapse before the patient may become entirely free from, this last vestige of his indiscretion. One of the uncomfortable features about gleet is the fact that excesses of various kinds are apt to increase the discharge so that its quantity becomes almost as great as during the original gonorrhoea. This is especially often the case after excessive sexual indulgence, but it may also follow immoderate use of liquors, especially of beer, or even physical or mental exhaustion from overwork. After the discharge has thus broken out a few times it becomes extremely difficult to check it completely. One of the popular misapprehensions with regard to gleet is the general belief among young men that the watery liquid which escapes from the urethra is the seminal fluid. Such men are tormented with the idea that they have " emissions, " and in consequence often become despondent and melancholy. A positive opinion can be, in every case, made by a microscopic examination of these drops of fluid. In the majority of cases it will be found that the fluid does not come from the organs of generation, but is merely the continuation of the inflammatory discharge of gonorrhoea. Treatment.-The treatment of gleet should never be undertaken by the patient himself. It is in fact, even in the hands of the ordinary physician, a most obstinate and puzzling affection. Cases frequently run for years under treatment of various kinds, and fail to improve until they come into the hands of one who has devoted especial attention in the most scientific schools to this class of diseases. It is scarcely necessary to say that such properly educated and competent physicians never advertise, since no medical man who can attain an honorable position ever resorts to means which are practiced only by quacks. Gleet often depends upon the existence of a stricture, and can be relieved only when the stricture has been cured. At other times there is an ulcerated spot somewhere in the course of the urethra from which the discharge comes. In still other cases there is a chronic inflammation of the gland situated at the neck of the bladder called the prostate gland. In none of these cases can any benefit be derived from injections into the urethra. The detection and treatment of stricture in the urethra requires a most expert and experienced surgeon ; the detection and treatment of an ulcerated spot requires the use of special instruments whereby the surgeon is enabled to see the entire surface of the urethra, even into the bladder ; an inflammation of the prostate gland can be recognized and treated only by the physician. We shall therefore refrain from giving descriptions and directions which would be unintelligible and impracticable to any one but a physician. In many cases the patient suffering from gleet is in a weak and debilitated condition, and will be benefited materially by tonics. In fact cases occur in which the gleet breaks out afresh whenever the individual becomes exhausted and disappears without further treatment when his general health is improved. Such patients will derive benefit from the following prescription : Tincture of the chloride of iron, - Six drachms. Tincture of nux vomica, - - Six drachms. Compound tincture of gentian, - To make four ounces. Mix and take a teaspoonful in half a wineglassful of water before meals. The treatment of gonorrhoea in the female varies somewhat in details, but follows the same general principles. If the inflammation affect the vagina only it will not be necessary or advisable for the patient to take any medicine internally. She should take a hot hip bath four or five times a day, remaining in the bath fifteen or twenty minutes each time. She should also use an injection after the following formula : Alum, - - - - Four drachms. Glycerine, - Four ounces. Water, - Four ounces. Half of this may be injected into tfie vagina at the conclusion of the hip bath. At night a tampon may be introduced, saturated with the following lotion : Tannin, - Four drachms. Glycerine, - - , - - Two ounces. Water, - Two ounces. A piece of cotton as large as a small lemon may be saturated with water and squeezed dry ; a piece of string is then tied around the middle of this, and it is then thoroughly saturated with this lotion. The tampon thus prepared may be introduced high up into the vagina and allowed to remain during the night; it is to be removed in the morning by means of the string, which should project from the vagina. If the inflammation affects the urethra also, the same measures should be adopted for rendering the urine unirritating as have been recommended in the treatment of gonorrhoea in the male. It will be advisable to administer copaiba and to drink water freely. The urine may be kept bland by the use of mineral waters, or by dissolving a teaspoonful of baking soda in a glass of water, as before mentioned. There are certain facts to be borne in mind whenever a patient, male or female, suffers from gonorrhoea. First, it should never be forgotten that the matter composing the discharge is highly contagious, not only when it comes in contact with the genital organs of another individual, but also for other mucous membranes of the patient himself as well as of others. Thus it sometimes happens that some of this matter is introduced into the rectum, causing a severe inflammation of this organ. In some instances it has been known to cause a violent inflammation of the nose, having been introduced into the nostrils by means of handkerchiefs soiled with the discharge. But the most susceptible of all the mucous membranes of the body is that of the eye ; and this is the one which is most frequently inflamed by the contact of gonorrheal discharge. The patient neglects to wash his hands carefully after performing the necessary manipulations of the diseased organs ; or he carelessly rubs his eyes even before he has washed his hands, and thus introduces some of the matter into the eye. In some instances the contagious matter is conveyed by towels which have been used by the patient about the genital organs and are subsequently employed to dry the face. The patient cannot be too careful to avoid every possibility of conveying the matter from the urethra to the eyes, for if the latter become inflamed there will result almost certainly a serious deformity of the eye, and in many cases partial or complete loss of sight. This inflammation of the eyes produced by the contact of gonorrheal matter, is one of the severest and most rebellious diseases which the eye surgeon is called upon to treat. The sight may be completely lost in a day or two, and there is no means for restoring it in such a case. It seems scarcely necessary to remark that a patient suffering from gonorrhoea should carefully abstain from sexual indulgence until several weeks have elapsed after the cessation of the discharge. His own welfare, as well as that of the other individual concerned, demands that he shall be strictly continent until there is no further possibility of communicating the disease. But first, if you want to come back to this web site again, just add it to your bookmarks or favorites now! Then you'll find it easy! Also, please consider sharing our helpful website with your online friends.
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