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 If improperly treated, or left too long without treatment, clap may become absolutely incurable.

Clap is not always cured even when the discharge stops. Sometimes when it seems to be cured it will come back years later, as the result of over-exertion. Hence the mistaken idea that clap is caused by a strain.

Even when the discharge stops there will still be a small drop at the end of the penis in the morning. This drop is just as dangerous as the yellow pus.

A man who is not cured may give the clap to his wife. Then she may have to undergo a serious operation which will make it impossible for her to have children.

Sixty out of every hundred serious operations on innocent women are caused by clap.

If she has a child, she may give it the disease and it may become blind.

One-quarter of all blindness in the United States is caused by clap.

An old case of clap is called gleet.

POX [Syphilis]
Syphilis is also caused by a germ. This germ gets into the blood through the skin of the penis or other part of the body.