sinking in water, and often combined with irregular pieces of green or yellow substances. _Treatment._—There are three objects to be aimed at in the treatment of consumption; first, to promote the absorption of the diseased matter; second, to subdue inflammation; and, third, to improve the general health. For the first effect, it is the general practice to slightly salivate the system by small doses of calomel and kino, followed by a course of iodine, either in the form of burnt sponge, hydriodate of potass, or tincture of iodine. Inflammation is subdued by small bleedings, two or three times repeated, leeches on the chest, blisters, or the counter-irritation of the tartar emetic ointment. The general health is to be improved by exercise, cold ablutions, and friction every morning, by a light and generous diet, and tonics with the mineral acids. In confirmed consumption, and where all the worst symptoms are in operation, the treatment must depend greatly on the actual state of the patient, though the most ordinary course is comprised in the following means and remedies: counter-irritation over the chest, by the tartar emetic ointment; an opiate at bed-time; and two table-spoonfuls of such a mixture as the following, every four or six hours. Take of Tartar Emetic 20 grains. Infusion of Gentian 6 ounces. Powdered Nitre ½ drachm. Mix. Where the sweatings are excessive, or there is spitting of blood with the cough, from fifteen to thirty drops of the elixir of vitriol in a wine-glass of water, is to be sucked through a quill every three or four hours. No practice is so fatal as the sending a confirmed consumptive patient to a warm climate, or even to remove him to a warmer residence in his own country, as the increased temperature only developes the worst symptoms more rapidly. To a patient only _predisposed_ to consumption, change of scene and climate is highly beneficial; but with the disease on him, it is suicidal. The modern practice of deluging the stomach with rancid fish oil, is a very questionable procedure, as any good that can result from its use must depend upon the amount of iodine or nitrogen the cod liver oil may possess; remedies that can be given in greater quantities, in a much less objectionable way.