Alcohol: sometimes very useful.
Aspiration, gradual, if exudation threatens life.
Bleeding.
Blisters: near heart.
Bryonia: useful in exudation.
Calomel and Opium: formerly much used.
Digitalis: when heart is rapid and feeble with cyanosis and dropsy.
Elaterium.
Ice: bag over the precordium.
Iodides.