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onions, warm bath for half an hour every day for a month. In- 

 haling the fteam of water, with or without volatile alkali. Soap. 



r. Conjllpaiio aim. Coftivenefs from increafed action of the 

 inteftinal abforbents. The feces are hardened in lumps called 

 fcybala ; which are fometimes obliged to be extracted from the 

 rectum with a kind of marrow fpoon. This is laid to have hap- 

 pened from the patient naving taken much ruft of iron. The 

 mucus is alfo hardened fo as to line the inteftines, and to come 

 away in fkins, rolled up as they pafs along, fo as to refemble 

 worms, for which they are frequently miftaken ; and fometimes 

 it is evacuated in (till larger pieces, fo as to counterfeit the form 

 of the inteftines, and has been miftaken for a portion of them. 

 Balls of this kind, nearly as heavy as marble, and considerably 

 hard, from two inches to five in diameter, are frequently found in 

 the bowels of horfes. Similar balls found in goats have been 

 called Bezoar. 



M. M. Cathartics. Diluents, fruit, oil, foap, fulphur, warm 

 bath. Sprinkling with coid water, cool clothing. See Ciafs I. 

 2. 4. 18. 



6. Cutis arida. Dry Ikin. This drv fkin is not attended with 

 coldnefs as in the beginning of fever-fits. Where this cutaneous 

 abforption is great, and the fecreted material upon it vifcid, as 

 on the hairy fcalp, the fkin becomes covered with hardened mu- 

 cus ; which adheres fo as not to be eanly removed, as the fcurf 

 on the head ; but is not attended with inflammation like the 

 Tinea, or Lepra. The moifture, which appears on the ikin be- 

 neath refmous or oily plafters, or which is (sen to adhere to inch 

 plafters, is owing to their preventing the exhalation of the per- 

 fpirable matter, and not to their increafmg the production oi 1:, 

 as fome have idly imagined. 



M. M. Warm bathing, oil externally, cil-fkin gloves, refm- 

 ous plafters. Wax. 



7. Urma parca cohraia. Diminifhed urine, which is high col- 

 oured, and depofits an earthy fediment, when cold, is owing to 

 the great action of the urinary abforbents. See Chfs I. 1.2. 

 4. In fome dropfies the cutaneous abforbents are paralytic, as 

 well as thofe opening into the cellular membrane % and hence, 

 no moifture being acquired from the atmofphere, or from the 

 cellular membrane, great third is excited ; and great abforption 

 from all parts, where the abforbents are ftill capable of action. 

 Hence the urine is in very fmall quantity, and of deep colour, 

 with copious fediment ; and the kidneys are erroneously blamed 

 for not doing their office ; ftimulant diurt »edicines aregr 



en in vain ; and very fi . juently the unhappy patient is reitrain- 

 ed from quenching his thifft, and dies a martyr to faife th 



M. M. Diluc 



