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Treatment. — Take) gentle aperients of Senna and Epsom Salts, with a little ginger. Drink freely of balm tea and other diluents. Great and sometimes immediate relief has been obtained by the Compound Colocynth Pill, combined with the Blue Pill. External applications are useful. Dip a flannel in hot water and apply to the affected part frequently. Or dip a flannel in hot water, and sprinkle with spirits of turpentine, and apply to the part as long as it can be endured. Or apply the Stimulating Liniment. The tincture of aconite is an excellent rubefacient ; also the soap and opium liniment, with a few drops of spirits of turpentine. The diaphoretic powders are very useful. If the urine be deficient and high coloured, give 10 or 12 grains of carbonate of potassa with a teaspoonful of sweet nitre in a wine-glassful of water twice a day. Lumbago and Sciatica, Remedy for.— Rectified oil of turpentine, 35 drops ; vitriolic ether, 1 scruple, mucilage of gum arabic, 3 drs. ; syrup of poppies, 1 dr. ; rose-water, 1 K oz. ; make into a draught ; take at bed-time. LUNCHEON CAKE.— Flour, 2 lbs. ; sugar, ’A lb. ; currants, % lb. ; butter, % lb. beaten very fine ; a few caraway seeds ; nutmeg grated ; milk, $ pint ; £ a teaspoonful of carbonate of soda ; 3 or 4 eggs. Stir all together, beat them ten minutes, and bake in a tin. LUNGS, Inflammation of. — Sometimes this disease affects one lobe of the lungs, and sometimes both. Males are more subject to it than females. Frequent colds, wet feet, intemperance, over exertion, and natural debility of the lungs induces this complaint. LUN MAC It generally begins with cold shiver- Ings, followed by hot fever, dull pains in the chest or side, cough, and very laborious breathing, the pulse is fiill and quick, the bowels are often constipated, the urine deficient, the skin dry and burning, the expectoration scanty, but is gradually increasing, and sometimes it contains blood. It is a very dangerous disease ; may proceed with such violence as to cause an effusion of blood or lymph into the texture of the lungs, as to cause suffocation. Treatment.— Avoid bleeding by the lancet. Dr. Beach says, "All the blood in the body must pass through the lungs, after reaching the heart, before it can be again circulated ; but in this disease, they are unable to perform this double duty from the great amount which has been distributed to them. As these organs have become unduly loaded ; impeding respiration, &c., the obvious indication is — instead of abstracting, or rather attempting it — to return it to its original channels, and thus remove the burden under which they labour. Bleeding will not affect this, but, on the contrary, it will so weaken or paralyze the heart, which is labouring to accomplish this object, that prostration, and often death, are the consequences."