Compound Tincture of Bark 4 drachms. Compound Tincture of Cinnamon 4 drachms. Sal Volatile 1 drachm. Mix and give a table-spoonful every two hours. Bottles of hot water should be kept to the feet, and a warm bran poultice placed round the throat. When the first stage of the disease has been passed, in addition to a nutritive diet, and a course of tonic stimulants, only less frequently administered, the throat must be gargled occasionally with the following gargles in succession. _Gargle No. 1._ Take of Strong Sage Tea 1 pint. Vinegar 4 ounces. Mix. To be used every hour for three or four times on each occasion. _Gargle No. 2._ Boil Bruised Oak-Bark 2 ounces. in a pint of water for ten minutes; and add Alum 2 drachms. Mix. To be used as the former. _Gargle No. 3._ Take of Infusion of Rose Leaves 1 pint. Sulphuric Acid 30 drops. Mix. To be used as the above. _Gargle No. 4._ Take of Capsicum Vinegar 6 ounces. Tincture of Catechu 4 drachms. Water, to make a pint. Mix, and use as the former. For the fœtor that arises from the sloughing, the mouth and throat are to be occasionally washed with a weak solution of chloride of lime, and, throughout the whole disease, the room should be frequently sprinkled with aromatic vinegar, or the chloride of lime or tin. Ordinary _sore throat_ or hoarseness, when not a symptom of any more severe illness, may usually be easily disposed of by rubbing the throat freely with hartshorn and oil, and then enveloping the throat and neck in two or three folds of hot flannel, plunging the feet two or three times quickly in very hot water upon stepping into bed, and placing a piece of Spanish juice in the mouth, allow it to dissolve there during sleep. When the sore throat is attended with cold chills, a dry hot skin and tendency to headache, before resorting to the liquorice and being well covered up with clothes, the patient should drink about half a pint of hot egg-flip made tolerably potent with a due proportion of gin or rum. CARE OF THE HANDS. It is acknowledged, by common consent, that dirty and coarse hands are marks of slothfulness and low breeding; while, on the contrary, clean and delicate hands are evidences of cleanliness and refinement. The person who has much manual labour to perform, cannot, of course, be expected to keep his hands of that delicate shape and texture, which another person, whose employment is light, may do. But, at the same time, it is always possible, under any circumstances, to keep the hands in that state during the intervals of labour, so that they shall not appear displeasing to the eye.