exercise and clothing entertaining the mind, and
furnishing plenty of pure air.

(3.) Prescribe such a nutritious diet as will agree with the enfeebled
condition of the patient.

(4.) Regular habits should be established in regard to meals, exercise,
recreation, rest, and sleep.

(5.) The use of tonics and stimulants, as much as the stomach will bear,
should be encouraged. Bathe the surface with a solution of a drachm of
quinine in a pint of whiskey.

(6.) Iron, in some form, is the special internal remedy in anaemia.
Meantime, it is proper to treat the patient with gentle, manual
friction, rubbing the surface of the body lightly and briskly with the
warm, dry hand, which greatly stimulates the circulation of the blood.
Anaemia occurs more frequently in the female than in the male, because
her functions and duties are more likely to give rise to it.

APNOEA.

Apnoea, or short, hurried, difficult respiration, is occasioned by
certain conditions of the blood. When anything interferes with the
absorption of oxygen, or the elimination of carbonic acid, the blood is
not changed from venous to arterial, and becomes incapable of sustaining
life. This morbid condition is termed _asphyxia_. We often read of
persons going into wells where there are noxious gases, or remaining in
a close room where there are live coals generating carbonic acid gas and
thus becoming asphyxiated, dying for want of oxygen.

Deficiency of oxygen is the cause of apnoea, and sometimes the red
corpuscles themselves are so few, worn out, or destroyed, that they
cannot carry sufficient oxygen, and the consequence is that the patient
becomes short of breath, and when a fatal degeneration of the corpuscles
ensues, he dies of asphyxia. Many a child grows thin and wan and
continues to waste away, the parents little dreaming that the slow
consumption of the red corpuscles of the blood is the cause which is
undermining the health. Sometimes this disease is the result of
starvation, irregular feeding, improper diet, want of care, and, at
other times, want of fresh air, proper exercise, and sunlight.

TREATMENT. The first essential to success in the treatment of this
disease, is the removal of the exciting cause. Exercise in the outdoor
air and sunlight, with good, nutritious food, and well-ventilated
sleeping apartments, are of the greatest importance. The bitter tonics,
as hydrastin, with pyrophosphate of iron, should be employed to enrich
the blo