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The unfavourable symptoms are, feeble, frequent, and irregular pulsation, palid countenance, cold sweats, increased mucous, and the prostration of strength through the cough in efforts to remove it ; the cough becomes less effectual to expectorate ; wheezing comes on, and next a rattling in the large airtubes, delirium, and suffocation. Frequently, the collapse is very rapid, inducing dissolution in two or three days. Cure. — The loss of vitality in the system has caused a diminished temperature, chills, coldness of the surface and extremities, imperfect cutaneous functions and the effusion of impure blood on the mucous membrane of the bronchia ; followed by irritation and congestion, and the secretion of mucous hinders the breathing. Nature requires the removal of these obstructions. Place the feet in warm water, and administer warm and mucilaginous drinks ; as, linseed tea, barley water, with a little lemon juice ; balm tea ; gentle aperients, if required ; foot-baths, and hot bran poultices to the chest. The surface of the body should occasionally be bathed with warm water and carbonate of soda. The vapour bath also is recommended. Nothing is so effectual as nauseating medicines. The design of all remedies in this disease is to dislodge the tenacious and viscid secretion which lines the air-tubes, and the impure blood must be corrected and returned to the surface. Emetics have a specific action on the respiratory organs, dislodging the bronchial phelegm, and removing the tension of the parts. Take four grains of ipecacuanha powder, in a little warm water, every twenty minutes, till vomiting takes place. Repeat if necessary. Or, take the following emetic : — Lobelia, six drachms ; shunk cabbage, three drachms ; ipecacuanha, four drachms ; cayenne pepper, half a drachm. Powder and mix. A teaspoonful in camomile tea, every twenty minutes till it operates. It is most effectual in clearing the lungs from accumulated matter. These Herbs are sold by the Medical Botanists and Druggists. Laborious breathing may be relieved by inhaling steam from a decoction of bitter herbs, or even hot water. Gentle perspiration must be promoted, and medicines employed to allay the cough, if troublesome. The following is a good mixture : — Ipecacuanha wine, one drachm ; aromatic spirit of ammonia, two drachms ; carbonate of potash, one drachm ; water, eight ounces ; and if the cough be irritable, add a grain of acetate of morphia — take two tablespoonfuls every four hours. Or, take almond oil, half an ounce ; solution of the carbonate of scda, half a drachm ; syrup of tolu, one ounce ; syrup of poppies, one ounce ; water, six ounces. Mix, and take two tablespoonfuls every two or three hours. Perspiration may be promoted by taking the Sudorific Powder, p.jar, 383, Counter-irritants are sometimes effectual, as mustard plasters ; and in extreme cases, small blistering plasters to the chest. Dr. Beach recommends flannels dip- BRO BRU ped in a decoction of hops and wormwood, boiled in vinegar ; the flannels to be gently wrung, and applied as hot and l as often as possible over the bronchial tubes, or the upper part of the chest, i If it produces an eruption, it is favourable.