an early calculating device

From this short review, it is clear that many chronic gonorrhœæ already represent the first stages of strictures, or, as Otis calls them, “large-sized strictures,” which naturally cannot be cured by astringent solutions, or even such as are fatal to gonococci.

Well, slip-string, I shall meet with you.

More often, the reverse appeared to be the case: government officials were on the scene, but their own antiforeign sentiments prevented their taking action against the rioters, as at Nanking and Wu-hsi.