_Treatment._ The mildest cases will recover of themselves, especially if care is taken to protect the patients against cold, wet, draughts of cold air, over-exertion, and other injurious causes, and to give a part of the food warm and sloppy. In severe cases treatment must be more active, but it will be borne in mind that severe depletive measures are badly endured. Bleeding dangerously increases the already existing weakness and prostration without affording any corresponding advantage. It is only admissible when from the severity of the symptoms in the early stages suffocation is threatened or when the brain becomes involved in disease. Causing the patient to inhale water vapor from scalded bran or hay is to be assiduously carried on for half an hour to an hour twice or thrice daily until expectoration has been freely established and the cough and fever alike moderated. The density of the vapor must of course be apportioned to the particular case so as to avoid any approach to suffocation. The addition of the fumes of burning sulphur will often by their astringent and antiphlogistic action on the mucous membrane, render the vaporous application more effective. A pinch put into a small piece of paper twisted at one end to prevent burning of the fingers may be set fire to and the fumes allowed to pervade the apartment so that they can be breathed freely without inducing cough. A mustard poultice to the neck and sides of the chest should also be applied and kept on an hour or until effusion into the skin is well marked by thickening of its substance. Injections of warm water should be given alike to check or obviate shivering and to equalize the general temperature and to solicit the action of the bowels. In sporadic cases with active fever and full strong pulse a laxative dose of aloes (3 to 4 drachms) may be given, but if with a low fever and during the prevalence of influenza not more than half the dose should be given or enemata alone may be relied upon. As soon as the medicine has set or at once if it is withheld, neutral salts may be given (Liquor Ammoniæ Acetatis 2 oz. or Sweet Spirits of Nitre 1 oz. or nitrate of potass ½ oz. combined with 10 drops tincture of aconite repeated twice or thrice daily). If the cough is troublesome and secretion long in being established, expectorants may be used (oxymel of squill 3 oz., powdered squill ½ oz. or liquorice 1 drachm) with half the doses of the neutral salts. In the early stages to hasten expectoration such preparations as the following may be given: Recipe: Potas. Bicarb. 2 ounces; Ammon. Carb. 2 ounces; Digitalis Pulv. 2 drams. Mix. Divide into eight powders: give one every four hours. Recipe: Ammon. Murias. 2 ounces; Choral. Hydrat. 1 ounce; Tinct. Hyoscam. 2 fluid ounces; Aqua 8 fluid ounces. Mix. Give two tablespoonfuls every four hours.