The following tablet is a very simple and very efficacious remedy for breaking up a cold in the early stages: Take of powdered camphor ¼ gr.; of the sulphate of quinin ¼ gr.; and of the fluidextract of belladonna root ⅛ minim. This should be well mixed, and made up into one tablet or a capsule. One tablet is taken every half-hour, until four doses have been taken; after that one tablet every three hours, until the running of the nose has ceased, which generally occurs within twenty-four hours. If there is not marked improvement at the end of this time, or if there is any fever, a physician should be consulted at once. Quinin, when given alone to abort colds, must be given in sufficiently large doses to produce cinchonism, the subjective symptom of which is a slight deafness or ringing of the ears. The natural tendency of cold is to cause inflammation of the middle ear, and since the use of quinin in large doses causes a congestion, and so predisposes to inflammation of the middle ear, its use should be avoided. The great amount of illness and mortality from pneumonia during and following epidemics of influenza is too familiar to the public to need more than mentioning. The patient is so rapidly and extremely prostrated by the attack of influenza as to be susceptible to the ready action of the pneumococcus, which, as we have seen, is ever present, and the extension of the inflammation from the fine bronchial tubes to the air-cells of the lungs rapidly takes place. In the exhausted condition of the patient she is not able to resist this invasion, the heart is already weakened, and death frequently rapidly ensues as the immediate result of heart failure. =The Prevention of Tuberculosis.=—The tubercle bacillus is practically ubiquitous, and the prevalence of tuberculosis is universal. Hence it is imperative to raise the resistance of the individual in every way possible, as well as to limit the spread of the infection. This means the employment of all the resources of public and personal hygiene, public and private sanitation, and the education of the public in how the disease is disseminated, and how its spread may be prevented; also the teaching of the individual, her duty to the family and society, as well as to herself, in order not to spread the contagion. Tuberculosis attacks the crippled and poorly developed lung just as surely as it shuns the one which is fully expanded and in constant and active service. Numerous observations have established the existence of a constant ratio between tuberculosis of the lungs and deficient chest expansion.