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one attack afford the slightest protection against a second. They differ in that the poison of gonorrhea may arise spontaneously, while that of chancroid, so far as we know, never thus originates; that gonorrhea, chiefly affects the surface—true ulceration being rarely induced—and, in its complications, most frequently attacks parts connected with the original seat of the disease by a continuous mucus surface, as the prostate gland, bladder and testicles; while the chancroid, on the contrary, is an ulcer involving the whole thickness of the integument or mucous membrane, and its complications are seated in the absorbent vessels and ganglia. It would also appear that the poisons of these two affections are limited to one common vehicle—namely, pus. This conclusion is sustained by the fact that neither the poison of gonorrhea nor that of the chancroid ever reaches the general circulation, and it is well known that pus globules are not capable of absorption. When the purulent matter of a chancroid enters the absorbent vessels, as occurs in the formatism of a virulent bubo, it is arrested by the first chain of lymphatic