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"Treatment.—Keep the sore clean, employ a restricted diet, practice absolute continence, and refrain from active exercise for a few days. Meat, stimulants, spices and tobacco should be carefully avoided. The specific poison may be destroyed by touching the sore with a strong caustic of some sort.—A. A. Kellogg, M.D.

"In the treatment of chancroid, prompt attention to the general health of the individual is almost all that is required, for the disease, being a self-limited one, it will get well in the absence of all treatment, other than that of perfect cleanliness of the parts. But when not promptly attended to by the adoption of a strict diet of plain food and bathing it is apt to be followed by a bubo. If the pustule is noticed the second or third day after contagion, it can be destroyed by burning with nitrate of silver; but after this time—say, within from three to six days—nitrate of silver will be too feeble, and it will require the application of a much more powerful caustic, as nitric of sulphuric acid, applied by means of a glass rod with a rounded