Should the pain continue excessive, and the patient be debarred from sleep by the nightly irritation, either twenty-five drops of laudanum, in half a wine-glass of water, with a tea-spoonful of spirits of sweet nitre, is to be given to him, if an adult, at bed-time; or else ten grains of Dover’s powder in a little gruel; and should it be required (one or the other), repeated at night for two, three, or more occasions, as may be needed; the patient, during the day, reverting to the mixture and an occasional pill, sufficient to excite one or two actions in the twenty-four hours. Thin gruel, lemonade, or linseed tea as a diluent, are to be used frequently to quench the thirst, and a diet of the least solid or exciting kind established till all the febrile symptoms are subdued. After a lapse of from four to twelve days, the inflammatory stage, or the acute form of the disease, will generally have been passed through; after which, the treatment assumes a different form, such as _chronic_ rheumatism, though this term strictly signifies a disease of considerable standing; for the sake of perspicuity, that condition of the system existing at the termination of the acute form, has been classed under it, which, though not correct as to fact, is perfectly so as respects treatment, which is analogous in all conditions not attended with inflammatory fever. In chronic rheumatism, the inflammation and the pain are both confined to the locality or part, and the object of the treatment is to allay that pain by reducing the inflamed condition of the muscle or member. This is effected either by internal remedies, or what are called constitutional means, or through friction, by producing counter-irritation, or an artificial inflammation in the parts of the body immediately above the suffering place; or else by a judicious blending of the two modes of practice. When the fever, or the acute stage has been subdued by the means already mentioned, and a part of the body remains swollen and tender, or when in old cases this condition comes on without other symptoms, the following mixture is to be given, and the part carefully guarded from the cold. Take of Solution of Acetate of Ammonia 2 ounces. Wine of Colchicum ½ ounce. Syrup of Saffron 2 drachms. Camphor Water 3½ ounces. Mix, and give a table-spoonful every three hours, and one of the following pills every night an hour before bed-time. Take of Ipecacuanha 3 grains. Acetate of Morphia 1 grain. Liquorice Powder 10 grains. Mix well, form into a mass with conserve, and divide into six pills.