Emetics are a powerful remedy in the treatment of Phthisis. They not only promote expectoration, and relieve the distressing cough in the first stage of the disease, but by their general relaxing effects upon the system, are useful in reducing inflammatory action. The use of this remedy, however, should not in general be commenced until blood-letting has been premised; otherwise in plethoric habits, full vomiting might induce hæmoptysis. Practitioners have differed very much in the choice of emetics proper in this disease. The antimonial preparations and ipecacuanha, as acting more generally upon the system in reducing excitement, and from their good effects in other febrile diseases, appear to be the most proper. But in the last stage of Consumption, where our object is to relieve the pulmonary symptoms, without debilitating the patient, the sulphates of zinc and copper are preferable. Emetics are not only useful when exhibited for the purpose of full vomiting, but medicines of the same class given as diaphorectics are also proper. With this view the various preparations of antimony are in use. Small doses of the Antimonial powder combined with calomel have been found, perhaps, one of the best sudorifics that can be employed, and as such are frequently useful in Phthisis. No medicine is superior to this combination in reducing inflammatory action; and it frequently has a better effect by proving both emetic and purgative. As a sudorific, warm bathing may be very useful, and is an agreeable remedy in the inflammatory stage of Phthisis. As the warm bath is useful in relaxing the surface of the body generally; in a similar manner inhaling warm air, by means of Mudge’s apparatus, relaxes the inflamed membrane of the bronchiæ, and acts as a fomentation there, with the same good effect as is produced by warmth and moisture upon any other inflamed surface of the body. This remedy gives great relief in the cough and hoarseness so distressing in Phthisis Pulmonalis. With the same view of counteracting inflammation, cathartics may be prescribed. As in other febrile diseases, so in Phthisis, the bowels are frequently torpid, and require the frequent use of aperient medicines. Saline and mercurial cathartics, possessing the greatest power in diminishing excitement, are perhaps the most proper in this disease. But as it is an object not to induce too much debility, the use of drastic purgatives should be avoided as much as possible, and be confined to the earliest periods of the disease. During its advanced stage, the bowels should be kept open by mild laxatives and enemata, which tend least to debilitate the patient.