30 PRIVATE PRESCRIPTIONS 
WHAT TO DO. 
We can do but little, aside from treating as we would 
laryngitis. Nature seems to take her own good time in 
assisting these abscesses in pointing and breaking. Should 
the patient get beyond eating or drinking and stay in 
such a condition for any great length of time it becomes 
our duty to administer nutriment by way of the rectum. 
Large injections of water through this channel wi!l quench 
a burning thirst. 
BRONCHITIS. 
Bronchitis presents itself to us in different forms, hence 
we classify it into Acute and Chronic, and study each 
under a seperate head. In some sections of the United 
States these troubles are very prevalent, and it can in no 
way prove a waste of time for us to study them closely. 
Acute Bronchitis. 
This is simply an acute inflammation of the bronchi, these 
being the tubes or passages leading from the wind-pipe 
into the lungs. 
Cause—The causes of this trouble are much the same as 
that of those diseases of the air passages, previously de- 
scribed. 
HOW TO KNOW ii. 
Generally we find a chill to be the first sign of this dis- | 
ease, but it is not always observed; this passes off and the 
reaction brings on fever, the temperature rises, the nos “ils 
are distended and breathing is short and hard; at first 
there is a dry ‘“‘barking’’ cough. The membranes of the 
