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DISEASES OF THE GENERATIVE SYSTEM. 417
water is a tolerable safeguard. A perfect condam is an
entire protection to both sexes.
When the parts are in a firm and healthy state, there
may be neither inoculation nor absorption ; and some
persons seem to have the power of resisting all kinds
of virus. No deadly thing will harm them. This is
the condition of purity and vigor, worthy of the name
of health.
The regimen for cure must be the same as in gon
orrhoea, but we require more active purifying treat
ment. I order a wet compress to be kept upon the
chancre, and the part to be washed in cold water. It
is better to keep up the discharge, with the alternation
of the wet-sheet and blanket pack, to carry off any ab
sorbed matter by the skin. When the hard rim around
the ulcer has softened, and its appearance changed to
that of a simple ulceration, we may use a dry dressing,
or a covering of simple cerate, and let it heal. I would
cut out or'burn, either with a hot iron or caustic, a sore
on its first appearance ; and possibly it would have gone
no further; but after the ulcer is well developed, there
is no safety short of thorough treatment for six weeks.
In every stage of the disease, where it can not be cut
short by excision or cautery, we must use the same
treatment as for scrofula, or other virulent general
diseases.
Many cases of Stricture may be cured by
the wet
compress, sitz-baths, and careful friction of the part.
Other diseases of the generative organs are to be
treated in the same way as corresponding diseases of
other organs.
Seminal Emissions, however, demand a few words