_Treatment._—The foremost point to be remembered in the treatment of this disease is, that the great debility is _real_, not a prostration dependent on nervous pressure, but a _bonâ fide_ loss of vital power; consequently, bleeding, strong relaxing medicines, or blisters, are, except in very rare cases, highly injurious, and more likely to kill than cure the patient; the treatment therefore required is more a course of judicious dietary than one of physic. The medicinal means must consist of the following mixture and pills, keeping the feet hot by hot bricks, or bottles of water, and a hot bran poultice applied frequently to the neck and chest. Take of Powder of Compound Tragacanth 2 drachms. Hot Water ½ pint. Lump Sugar 2 drachms. Mix in a mortar, adding the water slowly till a smooth thin mucilage is made of the whole; then add— Tincture of Tolu 1 drachm. Ipecacuanha Wine ½ oz. Spirit of Nitre 6 drachms. Shake well together, and lastly, add solution of acetate of ammonia, 1½ ounce. Mix, and make a 12 ounce mixture: of which let the patient take two large table-spoonfuls every four hours. Take of Compound Rhubarb Pill ½ drachm. Extract of Henbane ½ drachm. Mix, and divide into 12 pills, two to be taken at bed-time every other day. To support the strength, the food must be of the lightest and most nutritious kind, such as boiled mutton, custards, and sago puddings; and as frequent stimulants are indispensable, claret glasses of warm egg-flip, either made in the usual way with the addition of a little rum or brandy, or egg-sherry must be given, with toast, every two hours. By these means, and the addition of twenty drops of laudanum, at bed-time, to a dose of the mixture, all ordinary cases of influenza may be safely and expeditiously treated to recovery. BILIOUS COMPLAINTS. Persons are said to be bilious, when bile finds its way from the small intestines into the stomach, and there, mixing with the digesting food and irritating the coats of the stomach, becomes absorbed into the blood, on which it acts like, a species of poison, producing a constitutional disturbance of more or less severity. The symptoms that prognosticate this kind of malady are intense pains in the head, weight and tenderness of the stomach, nausea and sickness, fœtid breath, a bitter or coppery taste in the mouth and throat, a coated tongue, and a quick sharp pulse. The skin is dry, there is considerable thirst, and also occasional shiverings.