S-2 DiSE kStS Class 1. 2. 3, 4^ 



vetfels of the noftriis drink up their fluids, namely the thin and 

 faline part of the mucus, after it has been cooled by the atmof- 

 phere. Hence the abforbents ceafing to ac~l, and the fecerning 

 veffels continuing forne time -longer to pour out the mucus, a 

 copious thin difcharge is produced, which trickles down the 

 noftriis in cold weather. This difcharge is fo acrid as to inflame 

 the upper lip ; which is owing to the neutral falts, with which 

 it abounds, not being reabfovbed ; fo the tears in the fiftula Jach- 

 yymalis inffame the cheek. See Clafs I. 1.2. 7. 



4. Expeftoratio frigida. Cold expectoration. Where the 

 pulmonary abforption is deficient, an habitual cough is produced* 

 and a frequent expectoration of thin faline mucus ; as is often 

 feen in old enfeebled people. Though the ftimulus of the faline 

 fluid, which attends all fecretions, is not fufficient to excite the 

 languid abforbent vefTels to imbibe it •, yet this faline part, to- 

 gether with the increafed quantity of the whole of the fecreted 

 mucus, (limulates the branches of the bronchia, fo as to induce 

 an aim oil inceflant caugh- to difcharge it from the lungs. A 

 (ingle grain of opium, or any other flimuiant drug, as a wine 

 pofiet with fpirit of hartfhorn, will cure this cold cough, and the 

 cold catarrh of the preceding article, like a charm, by ftimula- 

 ting the torpid mouths of the abforbents into action. Which 

 has given rife to an indifcriminate and frequently pernicious ufe 

 of the warm regimen in coughs and catarrhs of the warm or 

 inflammatory kind, to the great injury of many. 



M. M. Half a grain of opium night and morning promotes 

 the abforption of the more fluid and faline parts, and in confe- 

 cuence thickens the mucus, and abates its acrimony. Warm 

 diluent drink, wine-whey, with volatile alkali. 



c. Urina uberior pallida. On being expofed naked to cold 

 air, or fprinkled with cald water, a quantity of pale urine is foon 

 discharged ; for the abforbents of the bladder become torpid by 

 their fympathy with thofe of the fkin •, which are rendered qui-- 

 cfcent by the diminution of external heat 5 but the kidneys con- 

 tinue to fecrete the urine, and as no part of it is abforbed, it be- 

 comes copious and pale. This happens from a fimilar caufe in 

 cold fits of agues ; and in lels- degree to many debilitated conlli- 

 tutions, whole extremities are generally cold and pale. The' 

 great quantity of limpid water in hyfteric cafes, and in diabetes* 

 belongs to Clafs I. 3. 1. 10. I. 3. 2. 6. 



M. M. Tinclure of cantharides, opium, alum, forbentia. 

 Flannel fhirt in cold weather. Animal food. Beer. Wine. 

 Friclion. Exercife. Fire. 



6\ Diarrhea frigidd. Liquid (tools are produced by expofing 



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