3. _Treatment._—When the inflammation called chilblain has attacked any part, it should be considered whether it is a mere local affection, or whether it shows a constitutional state, which renders the hands or feet, or both, more liable to the attack than those parts ought to be. If hands and feet are both attacked in several spots at the same time, and this without any very evident cause, _constitutional_ treatment is pointed out, in addition to the use of remedial agents _locally_; where, however, there is only a single spot on the hands or feet, and a cause (such as warming the feet at the fire) is remembered, only local treatment is necessary. The hands and feet enjoy different conditions, however, and require slightly different management. Our treatment, therefore, resolves itself into three parts:— CONSTITUTIONAL. OF THE HANDS. OF THE FEET. _Constitutional Treatment._—Aperient medicines may be used to relieve the overloaded blood-vessels, and lessen the pressure upon the coats of the capillaries, or hair-like blood-pipes of the parts affected. After this has been done, small doses of tartrate of antimony wine (which seems to constringe the enlarged vessels) may be taken with advantage. The writer has seen this treatment (without local means) act as a sort of charm, and relieve full crops of chilblains on hands and feet. A dram of the wine may be added to half a pint of water, in which a drachm of saltpetre has been dissolved. Dose: for an adult, one or two table-spoonfuls every four hours; for a child, one or two tea-spoonfuls three times a day. It should not be given in such doses as to produce vomiting. The head, neck, and chest, should be washed in _cold_ water every morning, and brisk exercise taken at regular hours. Persons of a scrofulous habit should be particularly attentive to their general health in winter. The addition of salt to the washing water is recommended in their cases. It is not an uncommon practice for persons, after exposure to cold, to drink hot elder wine, or hot negus, or warm spirits and water; all such measures, having a tendency to produce rapid and violent reaction, are likely to render persons liable to chilblains. _Treatment of the Hands._—Wash in cold water every three hours, and lather well with Windsor soap. When the hands are nearly dried with the towel, pour a little Eau de Cologne, or milk of roses, into the palm of one hand, and rub it over the whole of both; lastly, polish with the towel till every part glows with warmth, and is so completely dry that the lint from the towel does not stick to the skin. The writer believes this simple plan to be _infallible_.