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It is very hard sometimes to have to do so, but there is no help for it It is economy 

 of time in the long-run, and the sooner you recognise that fact, the better your 

 chances of a speedy recovery. Your room should be kept warm with a good fire if 

 the weather is at all unfavourable. It is a good thing to try to get yourself into a 

 profuse perspiration, and you had better do this on the first night of your illness. 

 Have a good fire lighted in your bedroom a couple of hours or more before you go 

 to bed. Have an extra supply of bed-clothing, and sleep between the blankets. 

 Have your bed well warmed with the warming-pan, and take a couple of hot-water 

 bottles to bed with you. These hot-water bottles should be placed in a flannel bag, 

 and then you can put them against your legs or body without any fear of being 

 burnt The water should be as hot as possible, and the bottles should be rinsed out 

 with hot water to warm them before being used. You should either have a hot bath 

 just before getting into bed, or you should put your feet in hot water with some salt 

 and mustard in it. Then you should put a good large hot mustard poultice over 

 your chest, and keep it on as long as you can conveniently bear it If you are 

 a bachelor, and have a difficulty in getting any one to make a poultice for you, 

 a couple of mustard-leaves will do almost equally well r and they are very much less 

 trouble. Then you will want a night-cap something hot and strong. It does not 

 matter very much what form this takes, but the following is as good as any: 

 " Beat up an egg with a wine-glassful of sherry, and add it to a basin of hot gruel. 

 Flavour with nutmeg, sugar, and lemon-peel." If you cannot have gruel you can 

 always get spirits and water, and a good stiff glass of gin, brandy, or rum and water, 

 with plenty of sugar, is not to be sneezed at. Directly you have taken it, you should 

 cover yourself up, and try to go to sleep. If you take a book and read, it will not do 

 you half so much good, for you will have to keep your arms out to hold the book, 

 and you will never get into a perspiration ; so we say cover yourself up, and try to 

 get to sleep. You will probably find it very hot, and be tempted to throw off some 

 of the bed-clothes ; but you are not to do that on any account, or you will assuredly 

 defeat your object. Many people employ a kind of domestic Turkish bath when 

 they wish to get into a perspiration, and nothing could be better, provided you have 

 the apparatus and know how to use it. Others prefer the wet pack for this purpose, 

 and we have nothing to say against it, for it often answers admirably. These 

 methods may be used in conjunction with some of the other measures we have 

 recommended. If taken quite at the beginning, aconite (Pr. 38) will often succeed 

 better than anything. This mode of treatment will be discussed more fully when 

 speaking of "cold." In a severe case of bronchitis this simple treatment may fail 

 to effect a cure, although it will be sure to do some good. If you are very bad yon 

 had better keep in bed for a day or two, but if not you may get up and go into 

 your sitting-room. You will find it a good plan to keep a linseed-meal poultice 

 constantly on your chest It should be put on as hot as you can bear it, and as soon 

 as it gets cold it should be changed for another. In the case of children it is best to 

 have a jacket poultice that is, a poultice big enough to go over both chest and 

 back. Children should be kept in bed, for they are then more easily managed, and 

 if it does nothing else it keeps them out of colds and draughts. For adults, 

 inhalations are very useful. The simplest way of inhaling is to get a jugful of hot 



