Note CC — Chapter XIX · HYGIENE OF CHILDHOOD

Col. L. M. Maus, U. S. A., has used among the troops of his department of the Lakes for one year, with surprisingly effective results, a small tin collapsible tube containing a paste made of phenol 3 per cent., calomel 25 per cent. and lanolin 72 per cent. He has found this paste an absolute preventive against gonorrhoea, chancroid and syphilis, if properly used within half an hour after contact. One-third of the paste is squeezed into the urethra, the remaining two-thirds are applied to the glans. Cleansing the genitalia is not necessary, if the tube is used.