stone; the inflammations, by a cold lotion of sugar of lead and water; and the pimples and abscesses, by the same means assisted with cooling purgatives. For the more formidable disease of cancer, surgical aid must be obtained, as the treatment, in unskilful hands, might be attended with risk. There is a condition of the nose, usually, but not always justly, attributed to persons of dissipated habits, in which that feature becomes enlarged, of a red or purple colour, and covered with unseemly blotches, pimples, and bright-coloured excrescences, distending the organ sometimes to an enormous size. Though this disfigurement, undoubtedly, frequently marks the drunkard, it is more properly an indication of diseased liver than a characteristic of dissipation, and is more usually found in its worst form in persons of temperate, than intemperate habits. As this disease is in general a local system of a constitutional derangement, the remedies to cure it must more properly be applied to the system rather than the part. For this purpose a course of Plummer’s pill, alternated with blue pill, and a decoction of dulcamara and dandelion in water, two ounces of each, boiled from four to three pints, and a wine-glassful taken every four hours, and a pill twice a day, must be continued for some days, or even weeks; at the same time the nose should be enveloped in a poultice made of scraped Solomon’s seal, damped with vinegar, laid next the skin; and being put on at bed-time, should be allowed to remain all night. AFFECTIONS OF THE THROAT. The throat is subject to two forms of inflammatory action, acute and chronic; of the former, there are two conditions which, though both present acute inflammatory action, and both are diseases of a dangerous character, are very different in their symptoms and their consequences. These are—1st. _Inflammatory sore throat._ A disease that attacks persons of either sex, and of all ages up to forty or forty-five years; after which period it is but rarely met with. It is very often found attacking several persons at the same time like an epidemic, in spring and autumn, especially so when there are great vicissitudes of atmosphere; the disease being induced by the sudden application of cold to a heated body, or the reverse, but most frequently from wet feet, a sudden draught of cold air to the throat or nape of the neck, or even from a drink of cold water when the body is greatly heated.