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Nowadays it is not uncommonly adulterated by adding ground 
walnut shells, or frequently Cassia is substituted for the genuine 
article. 
Seeing that the pneumonia, or lung inflammation, which prevails 
of late, particularly after influenza, is proved to be of a septic 
type, Cinnamon affords promise of great remedial value as a 
sure germicide in this serious malady, which is often virulent in 
its character. In most cases it is due to toxic poisons generated 
by two or three special microbes, which underlie the whole attack; 
and therefore germicidal, or antiseptic nourishment is essentially 
indicated. During the first feverish stage an easy bed, absolute 
rest, and good nursing are indispensable, and no good purpose 
can be fulfilled by giving substantial, or very stimulating food. 
Measures for reducing the fever should be put into effect, such 
as cool sponging of the body, or perhaps even making use of 
iced water externally for a robust subject. As a drink, equal 
parts of whey and egg-water will be very suitable ; for the latter, 
whip up the whites of from two to four eggs to a froth, stirring 
them presently into a pint of cold water, and finally straining. 
This albuminate serves to replace the casein of the milk, which 
has been separated as curd in making the whey. Milk-whey 
is to be made by adding one part of fresh butter-milk to two 
parts of warm milk in a saucepan over a slow fire. If a slight 
stimulant should prove needful, wine-whey may be given, or 
egg-flip is a good compound for the purpose, being a food as well as 
a cordial. ‘* Whip up the yolk of a fresh egg, sprinkling a little 
powdered white sugar on it, and then adding from a teaspoonful 
to a tablespoonful of whisky, or brandy, and finally pumping 
soda-water from a syphon upon the mixture in a tumbler.” The 
natural history of pneumonia shows that unless septic compli- 
cations arise, the inflammatory process comes to an end about 
the sixth or seventh day, with the salutary occurrence of profuse 
sweating, or of some diarrhea, which are efforts to throw off 
the morbid material out of the system. But pneumonia is 
always hazardous to elderly persons, especially after influenza ; 
also to intemperate subjects. In the drunkard this seizure is 
almost of a certainty deadly. Double pneumonia in a drunkard 
is absolutely fatal: there is no chance for him. But in a young 
man, or young woman, previously healthy, simple pneumonia 
is usually recovered from. The particular causative microbe, 
Micrococcus lanceolatus, whilst often present in the mouth, even 
