do a day's work.

"Bouillon, or beef soup, at the beginning of a meal are
incentives to appetite. Change of scene, and life in the open
air are the very best aids to appetite, when aids are really
required."

APOPLEXY:--"There is a popular idea that whenever a person is
taken ill with giddiness, fainting or insensibility, brandy
should be at once procured and poured down his throat. Nothing
can be more dangerous in apoplexy. This disease is due to the
bursting of some blood-vessel in the head, and the poured-out
blood presses on the brain and leads to more or less
insensibility. If fainting occurs, it may possibly save the
patient's life, because then the blood-vessels contract, and the
flow of blood ceases immediately; time is thus given for the
ruptured blood-vessel to became sealed up by a clot, which will
prevent further loss of blood. If brandy is given, there is,
first, great risk of choking the patient; if that danger is
escaped and the brandy is swallowed and absorbed, the vessels
become relaxed and the heart recovers its force; hence the
ruptured vessel, if not sufficiently sealed by clot, may be
started again, and fatal hemorrhage result.

"The only _treatment_ which unskilled hands can adopt is to lay
the patient on his back on the floor or sofa with the head and
shoulders somewhat raised; to loosen all the dress round the
neck and body; to apply cold to the head and hot flannels or a
hot bottle to the feet and hands, or to soak them in hot mustard
and water, and to gently rub the arms and legs."--DR. J. J.
RIDGE.

Dr. Alfred Smee, surgeon to the Bank of England, says:--

"Give nothing by the mouth. Apply a stream of cold water to the
head. If the feet are cold apply warm cloths. If relief is not
soon obtained, apply hot fomentations to the abdomen, keeping
the head erect."

BED-SORES:--Some object to using alcohol even as an outward application.
Dr. Ridge recommends that when a patient is confined to bed the parts
pressed on be well washed every day with strong salt and water or alum
water, and carefully dried. _Glycerine of Tannin_ may then be applied.
If any redness appears, especially if any dusky patch is formed,
_collodion_ may be applied with a brush, and all pressure should be
taken off the part by a circular air-pillow or by a cushion; or small
bran or sand-bags may be mad