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(see Diet), and exercise in the openair; but damp atmosphere 
must be avoided. Removing northwards in winter would be 
advantageous. Intoxicating drinks may not be taken, as 
they inflame the lungs and aggravate the symptoms. When 
the patient feels languid, a dose of composition, strained and 
sweetened, would have a good effect. 
The two treatments are about the average of all the 
botanical doctors we have read from time to time. There are 
new remedies and modes of treatment announced, with more 
or less confidence on the part of the discoverers, some of whom 
are only advertising medicine men who can either manufacture 
testimonials, or get others to do it. There is hardly a year 
that does not see some new cure, but the one that sees them 
in as often sees them out. 
What we would recomunend ourselves is a course of 
medicine once a week; the balm of gilead, or Coffin’s 
mixture, in a wineglassful of strong infusion of mullen plant, 
one ounce to the pint, strained, and sweetened with brown 
sugar. As a strengthening food and medicine, take a tea- 
spoonful of a mixture of powdered comfrey root and elm, boiled 
in a half pint of milk ; blend the powder with a teaspoonful 
of sugar and a little milk; add the rest gradually; let it come 
to the boil. We think this is superior to cod liver oil, still if 
the stomach is able to digest it, some of the oil may be taken 
with this, a teaspoonful, stirred up with it will form a 
partial emulsion. Ifthe stomach is weak, a dose of pepsin may 
be added to the cupful of elm and comfrey food. We imagine 
some of our readers say, Who on earth could take all that 
medicine-—balm of gilead, mullen, comfrey, slippery, cod 
liver oil, pepsin? Yes, and a cup of composition tea to boot, 
Don’t be alarmed. When you may know that it is as much a 
food as it is medicine. Were it drugs, you might stand aghast, 
but the simples will not injure. We have met with doctors in 
America who believed strongly in whisky for consumption. 
They could not give a clear reason for its curative effect, but 
afrmed that it hindered the progress of decay in the lungs, 
