Half a tea-spoonful of magnesia, and the same quantity of cream of tartar, mixed in half a tea-cupful of milk, an hour before breakfast, and repeated as required, will be found very efficacious. Some practitioners have entertained the idea that the humours of the body are never vitiated to such a degree by the nettle rash as to require the use of internal remedies, and that if the irritation could be certainly allayed by external applications, there would be no necessity for any other mode of cure. As this disorder is very frequent in spring, when a hot sun, with cold winds, prevail, the visitor will hear of a variety of herbs as “never-failing cures” of nettle rash. Among these the nettle itself is the Abernethy of the party, concocted into a sort of tea with a proportion of one-third of ground-ivy infused in it. Although in a chronic form, it is often of rheumatic origin. Nettle rash is never a dangerous malady; but care should be taken to avoid currents of air, for, if it recedes, or, as is the common expression, “driven in,” it produces sickness, and other harassing symptoms. We have always found, in such cases as these—and, indeed, at most times—that simple remedies, easily accessible, are the most efficacious. CONSUMPTION. The persons most prone to consumption, are those of a sanguine or phlegmatic temperament, with long neck, sharp shoulders, narrow chest, slender fingers, clear skin, fair hair, and rosy complexion. The disease usually begins with a short dry cough, followed, after a certain length of time by a gradual loss of strength, lassitude, and great fatigue upon small exertions; the pulse is quick and small, while the cough, at first confined to the day, begins to extend into and through the night; the breathing is hurried, with a sense of tightness at the chest, accompanied with shooting pains; the expectoration at first frothy, becomes viscid, opaque, often tinged with blood; and very copious in the morning. As the disease advances, emaciation takes place, the cough, pain, and difficulty of breathing increase, the face is flushed, the soles of the feet and palms of the hands are affected with a dry burning heat, the tongue, formerly white, now becomes clean and red, the pulse is smaller and quicker, and hectic fever sets in, attended with profuse perspiration; generally occurring twice a day, and, as the symptoms grow more formidable, the appetite usually increases, filling the patient with delusive hopes of recovery. The final symptoms, and those that indicate approaching dissolution, are the setting in of diarrhœa, night sweats, prominent cheek bones, hollow and cadaverous countenance, swollen legs, great emaciation, and curved finger-nails. The expectoration has at the same time altered its character with each stage of the disease; at first scanty and frothy, it becomes opaque and presents a mixture of mucus and pus, occasionally streaked with blood, and finally becomes all purulent,