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196 wet cloths. In all of these cases vegetarian diet is of great importance."—Joel Shaw, M. D.

"In the treatment of gleet the directions for general treatment in gonorrhea should be adopted. For the local treatment the sitz bath is indicated. Commencing with tepid water, which will slightly increase the discharge at first, the temperature should be daily lowered, so that at the end of a week very cold water may be used. This bath may be applied two or three times a day, fifteen to twenty minutes at a time. The case of a gentleman who had gleet at this moment occurs to me. It had been of some two years' duration, the patient having tried the best physicians in vain. Drugs, applications and injections of all kinds had been tried, only to make the discharge seem worse. The patient had the offer of a sea trip on a sailing vessel, which he accepted. The trip lasted for nearly three months, during which time, owing to peculiar circumstances, the food was not only of the plainest in quality, but of the smallest in quantity. The patient landed in better health than he had for a long time experienced, and entirely cured of