Let him lie either _outside_ the bed or on a sofa, if he be very ill, _inside_ the bed, with a sheet and a blanket only to cover him, but no thick coverlid. If he be allowed to be on the lap, it only heats him and makes him restless. If he will not lie on the bed, let him rest on a pillow placed on the lap, the pillow will cause him to lie cooler, and will more comfortably rest his weaned body. If he be at the breast, keep him to it, let him have no artificial food, unless, if he be thirsty a little toast and water. If he be weaned, let him have either milk and water, arrow root made with equal parts of milk and water, toast and water, barley water, or weak black tea, with plenty of new milk in it, &c., but, until the inflammation have subsided, neither broth nor beef tea. Now, with regard to medicine, the best medicine is Ipecacuanha Wine, given in large doses, so as to produce constant nausea. The Ipecacuanha abates fever, acts on the skin, loosens the cough, and, in point of fact, in the majority of cases, will rapidly effect a cure. I have in a preceding Conversation given you a prescription for the Ipecacuanha Wine Mixture. Let a tea-spoonful of the mixture be taken every four hours. If in a day or two he be no better, but worse, by all means continue the mixture, whether it produce sickness or otherwise, and put on the chest a _Tela Vesicatoria_, a quarter of a sheet. The Ipecacuanha Wine and the Tela Vesicatoria are my sheet anchors in the bronchitis, both of infants and of children. They rarely, even in very severe cases, fail to effect a cure, provided the Tela Vesicatorina be properly applied, and the Ipecacuanha Wine be genuine and of good quality. If there be any difficulty in procuring _good_ Ipecacuanha Wine, the Ipecacuanha may be given in powder instead of the wine The following is a pleasant form-- Take of--Powder of Ipecacuanha, twelve grains White Sugar thirty six grains Mix well together and divide into twelve powders. One of the powders to be put dry on the tongue every four hours. The Ipecacuanha Powder will keep better than the Wine--an important consideration to those living in country places, nevertheless, if the Wine can be procured fresh and good, I far prefer the Wine to the Powder. When the bronchitis has disappeared, the diet ought gradually to be improved--rice, sago, tapioca, and light batter-pudding, &c.; and, in a few days, either a little chicken or a mutton chop, mixed with a well-mashed potato and crumb of bread, should be given. But let the improvement in his diet be gradual, or the inflammation might return.