employment of
alcoholic stimulation in this disease is almost always used by
physicians. Control the vomiting and allay the thirst by allowing the
patient to suck small pieces of ice every five or ten minutes. Hot
fomentations or spirits of turpentine should be applied to the throat.
If the physician does not take charge of the patient by this time, the
use of permanganate of potash, triturated, in strength of one grain to
the ounce, in a mixture of fine sugar of milk and gum acacia, and blown
over the parts with an insufflater every few hours, brings the best
results if thoroughly carried out; or the throat can be swabbed out with
the following mixture: chlorate of potash, four drachms; tincture of
muriate of iron, three drachms, syrup of orange, two ounces; water
sufficient to make four ounces; administered every two or three hours.
Inhaling steam or lime-water from a steam atomizer is especially good.
The use of blisters, caustics, active purges, mercurials, or bleeding,
should be condemned. Throughout the whole course of the disease the
strength must be supported by the most nourishing diet, as well as by
tonics and stimulants. Beef tea, milk, milk punch, and brandy should be
freely administered. A competent physician should be called in as early
as possible. The general results of the treatment with antitoxin, if
given on the first, second or third day of the disease, are usually
favorable. There are rarely any immediately bad results from the
injections, and the published testimony of careful observers would tend
to prove that recovery has followed its use in a larger percentage of
cases than under former methods of treatment.

QUINSY. (TONSILLITIS.)

This is an acute inflammation of the tonsils, which generally extends
to, and involves adjacent strictures, and is attended with general
febrile disturbance. Its duration varies from four to twenty days. It
sometimes terminates by a gradual return to health (resolution); or by
the formation of "matter" within the gland (suppuration.) When this
latter is the case, the swelling sometimes becomes so great before it
breaks as to require lancing.

CAUSES. It most frequently results from a cold. In some persons there is
a predisposition to it, and the individual is liable to recurring
attacks. Persons of a scrofulous diathesis are more liable to it than
others.

SYMPTOMS. Difficulty of swallowing, soreness, and stiffness of the
throat, are the first monitions of