As in other pneumonias the application of cold to the skin is liable to bring on a chill unless the temperature is very high. A safer and hardly less effective method is to apply around the chest a thin blanket or sheet wrung out of tepid water and cover it closely with dry blankets holding these close to the skin by elastic circingles. No part of the damp compress must be allowed to remain exposed to the air under pain of causing chill. Damp cotton wool applied next the skin tends to maintain its contact by its own elasticity, so that it requires less care in the elastic dry covering. This moist warmth draws a free circulation of blood to the skin, so that it is cooled and sent back internally to cool the burning fever, without sensation of chill. The abstraction of this large mass of blood to the skin, acts like bleeding in diminishing the blood tension in the chest and allowing the resumption of the normal vaso-motor and nutritive functions without the dangers of venesection. The soothing action on the skin, soothes by sympathy the infected and inflamed tissues. A steam or hot air bath may serve a similar purpose. Conjoined with an aloetic laxative and aconite, I have seen this reduce the temperature from 104.5° F. to 102.7° F. at the next taking 18 hours later. It only once again reached 103° F. in the subsequent course of the disease. To secure diaphoresis, warm mashes or gruels may be freely used. Alcoholic drinks have been freely used (the weaker wines 1 to 2 qts., sherry, brandy, whisky ½ to 1 pint), camphorated spirit (2–3 drs.) subcutem, ipecacuan (1 oz.), tartar emetic (2 drs.), liquor of acetate of ammonia (4 ozs.), pilocarpin (2 grs. subcutem). If the alcoholic liquors produce a free circulation and glow in the skin, better still if diaphoresis, they are useful antithermics, but, if they fail in this, they may do harm by reducing the vital activities of the leucocytes, and their power of resistance. Trasbot has had uniformly unfortunate results with alcohol in large doses. The same objection attaches to tartar emetic and other depressant diaphoretics, though valuable if free diaphoresis is secured. Constipation may be met by cold water injections, calomel (½ to 1 dr.), pilocarpin (3 grs.), eserine (1½ gr.), sodium sulphate or other agent graduated to requirement. An expectorant and alkaline diuretic action may be obtained from potassium iodide (1–2 drs.), ammonium chloride (2 drs.), or ammonium acetate. These not only liquefy the exudate, and facilitate expectoration, but secure elimination of toxins, ptomaines and waste products from the blood and system. The iodide is besides somewhat antiseptic.