e doses
given at long intervals.

"I treat many cases by inhalation, and for this end I use oxygen
in a new and, I hope, efficient manner. I make oxygen gas a
medium for carrying other volatile substances that admit of
being inhaled with it. The mode is very simple. * * * * * In the
pneumonic and bronchial cases the treatment has been of the
simple and sustaining kind. The medicines that have been given
during the acute febrile stages have been chiefly liquor ammoniae
acetatis and carbonate of ammonia in small and frequently
repeated doses. The patients have all been well and carefully
fed on the milk and middle diet until convalescence was
declared. In some of the more extreme instances, where there was
fear of collapse from separation of fibrine in the heart or
pulmonary artery, ammonia has been given freely according to the
method I have for so many years inculcated. I have also in cases
of depression under which fibrinous separation is so easily
developed, lighted on a mode of administering ammonia which
combines feeding with the medicine. I direct that a three or
five-grain tabloid of bicarbonate of ammonia shall be dissolved
in a cup of coffee or of coffee with milk, and be taken by the
patient in that manner. The coffee can be sweetened with sugar
if that is desired by the patient, and the ammonia can be so
administered without any objectionable taste to the beverage.
After what is called the crisis in acute pneumonia, I administer
very little medicine of any kind; I trust rather to careful
feeding with an occasional alterative or expectorant, as may be
required. * * * * * I am satisfied that no aid I could have
derived from alcoholic stimulants, as they are called, could
have bettered my results. I feel sure any candid medical brother
who will have the steady courage to put aside many old and
unproven, though much-practiced, methods, based only on
unquestioning and unquestioned experience, and to move into
these new fields of observation and experience, will, in the
end, find no fault with me for leaving a track which, though it
be beaten very firmly and be very wide and smooth to traverse,
may not, after all, be the surest and soundest path to the
golden gate of cure."

THE FRANCES E. WILLARD NATIONAL TEMPERANCE HOSPITAL.

This hospital is situated at 343-349