uence in this disease, and the
tincture or fluid extract of the root of this plant may be
advantageously combined with the aconite. Take fluid extract of
aconite-root, thirty drops; fluid extract of black cohosh, one drachm;
water, fifteen teaspoonfuls; mix. The dose is one teaspoonful every
hour. The whole person should be frequently bathed with warm water,
rendered alkaline by the addition of saleratus or soda. The painful
joints may be packed with wool or with cloths wrung from the hot
saleratus water, and the patient kept warm and quiet in bed. The acetate
of potash taken in doses of five grains, well diluted with water, every
three or four hours, is very valuable in acute rheumatism. Its alkaline
qualities tend to neutralize the acid condition of the fluids of the
system, and it also possesses diuretic properties which act upon the
kidneys, removing the offending blood-poison from the system through
these organs. If the joints are very painful, cloths wet with the
Compound Extract of Smart-weed and applied to them, and covered with hot
fomentations, very frequently relieve the suffering. The majority of
cases yield quite promptly to the course of treatment already advised,
if it is persevered in. The disease, however, sometimes proves obstinate
and resists for many days the best treatment yet known to the medical
profession.

TREATMENT OF CHRONIC RHEUMATISM. The general alkaline baths recommended
in the acute affection are also valuable in the chronic. The spirit
vapor-bath, the Turkish, as well as the sulphur vapor-bath, are all
worthy of a trial in this obstinate and painful disease. Alternatives
are a very valuable class of agents in chronic rheumatism. The following
mixture, in teaspoonful doses three times a day, in alternation with the
Golden Medical Discovery, has proved very successful in this disease:
acetate of potash, one ounce; fluid extract of black cohosh, one ounce;
fluid extract of poison hemlock, two drachms; simple syrup, six ounces.
This thorough alterative course, if well persevered in, together with
the use of alkaline and vapor-baths, will generally prove very
successful. The specialist, however, dealing with chronic diseases
exclusively, will occasionally meet with a case which has been the
rounds of the home physicians without benefit, that will tax his skill
and require the exercise of all his perceptive faculties to determine
the exact condition of the patient's system, upon which the obst