2.  Other Home Remedies.—­Another way to produce sweating is by placing fruit cans filled with hot water about the patient.  This will stop the chilly cold feeling and also will relieve the pain.  If you have a rubber water bottle, put hot water in that and place it near the sorest spot.  It may hurt the patient by its weight; if so, use less water, at the same time you can give hot drinks freely.  Almost any kind will do.  If the stomach feels bad, ginger or peppermint is best.  Hoarhound tea is especially good for chest trouble.

3.  Fomentations.—­Of hops or wormwood or smartweed, or catnip applied frequently and hot to the affected side often bring relief.  They must always be hot, and you must be careful not to get the night robes or covers wet.

4.  Camphorated Oil for.—­Rub the side with camphorated oil and cover over with a cotton jacket.  This is good unless it makes the patient too warm.

5.  Adhesive Plaster Zinc Oxide.—­Use a roll two or two and one-half inches wide.  Commence at the backbone and cross directly over the ribs to the further side of the breastbone.  The first strip should be at the lower part of the chest.  In putting on the succeeding strips make them lap one-half inch over the next lower.  Bandage almost up to the arm-pit.  It may take eight strips for an adult.  After you have the strips on, place a piece at each end, part on the flesh and part on the plasters, to keep them from giving any.  The patient should have his arms over his head when you are putting on the strips.  This strapping will hold that side of the chest quieter.  The breathing will be less full and consequently less motion and pain.

6.  Tincture of aconite in doses of one-tenth to one drop can be given everyone to three hours at the beginning, if there is much fever, dry hot skin, and full bounding pulse.  Dover’s powder can be given at night.

7.  A hypodermic of morphine is frequently given when the pain is intense.

Abscess of the lungs.  Causes.—­Lobular pneumonia from abscesses in pyemia, from septic pleurisy, etc.

Symptoms.—­Fever, pain, difficult breathing, cough, and expectoration containing or consisting of pus of offensive odor, etc.

Physicians’ treatment of Abscess of the Lungs.—­Incision and drainage.  You must depend entirely upon your physician.

Emphysema.—­A condition in which there is air or gas in tissues that normally have none, or an excess of air in tissues that normally contain a certain quantity of it.  A condition of the lungs characterized by a permanent dilation of the air cells of the lung with dwindling of the air cell walls and the blood vessels, resulting in a loss of the normal elasticity of the lung tissue.

Causes.—­Heredity; it occurs in glass blowers, in musicians using wind instruments.  It occurs also after whooping-cough, asthma, etc.