times daily, generally on an empty stomach, in porter. A month had not elapsed before a marked change had taken place both in his general health and the feeling of the lungs ; the soreness gradually subsided, his cough disappeared, his respiration became easy and natural, and in a little time all expectoration of purulent matter ceased, together with the periodical eruptions. The hectic and night sweats abated, sleep became natural and refreshing ; the appetite returned, with a healthy state of

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... digestion ; the muscles acquired fulness, with renewed tone and activity ; and, in fact, the whole system, under the continued use of the oil, seemed to be regaining its wonted state of health. And now, after a period of nearly two years, there has not been an eruption or any appearance of a renewed abscess, and all purulent expectorations have long since subsided. He told me personally the last fall that he felt perfectly well ; he had no trouble from his lungs, he felt in better health and stronger than he had done for years. He had worked steadily every day, and had, during the haying season, kept up with other good mowers, and done his day's work as easily as any laborer. The beneficial results in tins case must be attributed alone to the oil, as no other medicine was made use of from the time of its commencement. He has informed me, since discontinuing the oil, that he took some twelve bottles in all, holding a pint each. The question may justly arise in this case, whether the abscesses that formed so often and discharged in such large quantities, were the result of long-continued tubercular deposit or the immediate effects of pneumonia or bronchial inflammation ? It is my opinion that they were the result of the latter, as he had always enjoyed good health up to the commencement of this attack, which was produced by a violent catarrh. [To be continued.]