£4 DISEASES Class I. i. 2. ir, 



cold bath, injections of metallic falts, flannel fhirt, change of 

 the form of the accuftomed chair or faddle of the patient. 



1 1. Fluor alb us caiidus. Warm fluor albus. Increafed fecre- 

 tion of mucus in the vagina or uterus without venereal defire or 

 ^,-enerea'l infection. It is diftir>gui(hed from the fluor albus frig- 

 idus by the increafed ienfe of warmth in the part, and by the 

 greater opacity or fpiilitude of the material difchsrged ; as the 

 thinner parts are re-abibrbed by the increafed action of the ab- 

 forbents, along with the faline part, whence no fmarting or ex- 

 coriation attends it. 



M. M. Mucilage, z% ifinglafo, hartfhorn felly, gum arabic. 

 Ten grains of rhubarb every night. Calico or flannel fhift, opi- 

 um, balfams. See Clafsl. 2. 3. 7. 



12. Hamorrhots alba. White piles. An increafed difcharge 

 of mucus from the rectum frequently miftaken for matter ; is 

 faid to continue a few weeks, and recur like the bleeding piles j 

 and to obey lunar influence. See Clafs I. 2. 1. 6. 



M. M. Abflinence from vinous fpirit. Balfam of copaiva. 

 Spice fwallowed in large fragments, as ten or fifteen black pep- 

 per-corns cut in half, and taken after dinner and fupper. Ward's 

 pafte, confifting of black pepper and the powdered root of He- 

 lenium Enula. 



1 3. Serum e veficatorio. Difcharge from a Wilier. The ex- 

 cretory ducts of glands terminate in membranes, and are endu-^ 

 ed with great irritability, and many of them with fenfibility : the 

 latter perhaps in confequence of their facility of being excitable 

 into great action 5 ini^ances of this are the terminations of the 

 gall-duel in the duodenum, and of the falivary and lachrymal 

 glands in the mouth and eye ; which produce a greater fecre- 

 tion of their adapted fluids, when the ends of their excretory 

 duels are flimulated. 



The external fkin conuTts of the excretory du£r.s of the capil- 

 laries, with the mouths of the abforbents -, when thefe are flim- 

 ulated by the application of cantharides, or by a flice of the frefb 

 root of bryonia alba bound on it, the capillary glands pour an 

 increafed quantity of fluiS upon the fkin by their increafed ac- 

 tion ; and the abforbent vefiels imbibe a greater quantity of the 

 more fluid and faline part of it ; whence a thick mucous or fe- 

 rous fluid is depofited between the fkin and cuticle. 



14. Perfpiratio foet'uia. Fetid perfpiration. The ufes of the 

 perfpirable matter are to keep the fkin foft and pliant, for the 

 purpofes of its eaiier flexibility during the activity of our Jimbs in 

 locomotion, and for the prefervation of the accuracy of the fenfe 

 of touch, which is diftufed under the whole furface of it to 

 guard t us againfl the injuries of external bodies , in the fame 



manner 



