uorice, glycyrrhiza glabra. Sugar. Honey.

4. Externally blisters. Oil. Warm bath.

IV. Mild diuretics.

1. Nitre, kali acetatum, other neutral salts.

2. Fixed alkali, soap, calcined egg-shells.

3. Turpentine. Balsam of Copaiva. Resin. Olibanum.

4. Asparagus, garlic, wild daucus. Parsley, apium. Fennel faeniculum,
pareira brava, Cissampelos?

5. Externally cold air, cold water.

6. Alcohol. Tincture of cantharides. Opium.

V. Mild cathartics.

1. Sweet subacid fruits. Prunes, prunus domestica. Cassia sistula.
Tamarinds, crystals of tartar, unrefined sugar. Manna. Honey.

2. Whey of milk, bile of animals.

3. Neutral salts, as Glauber's salt, vitriolated tartar, sea-water,
magnesia alba, soap.

4. Gum guaiacum. Balsam of Peru. Oleum ricini, castor-oil, oil of
almonds, oil of olives, sulphur.

5. Senna, cassia senna, jalap, aloe, rhubarb, rheum palmatum.

6. Calomel. Emetic tartar, antimonium tartarizatum.

VI. Secretion of mucus of the bladder is increased by cantharides, by
spirit of turpentine?

VII. Secretion of mucus of the rectum is increased by aloe internally, by
various clysters and suppositories externally.

VIII. Secretion of subcutaneous mucus is increased by blisters of
cantharides, by application of a thin slice of the fresh root of white
briony, by sinapisms, by root of horse-radish, cochlearia armoracia.
Volatile alcali.

IX. Mild errhines. Marjoram. Origanum. Marum, tobacco.

X. Secretion of tears is increased by vapour of sliced onion, of volatile
alcali. By pity, or ideas of hopeless distress.

XI. Secretion of sensorial power in the brain is probably increased by
opium, by wine, and perhaps by oxygen gas added to the common air in
respiration.

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ART. IV.

SORBENTIA.

I. Those things which increase the irritative motions, which constitute
absorption, are termed sorbentia; and are as various as the absorbent
vessels, which they stimulate into action.

1. Cutaneous absorption is increased by austere acids, as of vitriol; hence
they are believed to check colliquative sweats, and to check the eruption
of small-pox, and contribute to the cure of the itch, and tinea; hence they
thicken the saliva in the mouth, as lemon-juice, crab-juice, sloes.

2. Absorption from the mucous membrane is increased by opium, and Peruvian
bark, internally; and by blue vitriol external