Class I. 2. 3. 7. OF IRRITATION. *j 



the body naked to cold air, or fprinlding it with cold water, for 

 the fame reafon as the hAi article. 



But this difeafe is fometimes of a dangerous nature ; the in- 

 tellinal abforption being fo impaired, that the aliment is laid to 

 come away undiminished in quantity, and almoft unchanged by 

 the power* of digeftipn, and is then called lientery. 



The mucus of rive return fometimes comes away like pellu- 

 cid hartlhorn jeltyj and liquefies by heat, like that, towards the 

 end of inirritative fevers, which is owing to the thinner part of 

 the mucus not being abforbedj and thus .reiembipj the catarrh of 

 iome old people. 



M. M. Opium, campechy wood, armenian bole. Blifler. 

 Flannel fnirt in cold weather. Clyfters with opium. Friction, 

 en the bowels morning and night. Equitation twice a day. 



7. Fluor albas fVigldus. Cold fluor ~.ibus. In weak constitu- 

 tions, where this difcharge is pellucid and thin, it mud proceed 

 from want of abforption of the mucous membrane of the vagina, 

 or uterus, and not from an increafed fecretion. This I fufpect 

 to be the mod frequent kind of fluor albus ; the former one de- 

 fcribed at Clafs I. I. .2. 11. attends rnenftruation 5 or is a dif- 

 charge inftead of it, and thus refembles the venereal orgafm o£ 

 female quadrupeds. The difcharge in the colA. kind being more 

 ialine, is liable to excoriate the part, and thus produce fmarting 

 in making water ; in its great degree it is difficult to cure. 



M. M. -Increafe the evacuation by ftooi and by perfpiration, 

 by taking rhubarb every night, about fix or ten grains with one 

 grain of ooiurn forfome months. Flannel fhirt in winter. Balfam 

 copaiva. Gum kino, bitters, chalybeates, friction over the whole 

 fkin with flannel morning and night. Partial cold bath, by 

 Sprinkling the loins and thighs, or fponging them with cold 

 water. Mucilage as ifinglafs boiled in milk ; blanc mange, 

 hartfhorn jelly, are recommended by fome, Tincture of can- 

 tharides fometimes feems of fervice given from ten to twenty 

 drops or more, three or four times a dayo A large plafter of 

 burgundy pitch and armenian bole, fo as to cover the loins and 

 lower part of the belly, is faid to have fometimes fucceeded by 

 increafing abforption by its compreHion in the manner of a ban- 

 dage. A folution of metallic falts, as white vitriol, iixty grains 

 to a pint ; or an infuhon of oak-bark may be injected into the 

 vagina. Cold bath. 



8. Gonorrhoea frigida. Cold gleet. "Where the gleet is thin 

 and pellucid, it muft arife from the want of abforption of the 

 membranes of the urethra, rather than from an increafed fecre- 

 tion from them.t This I fuppofe to be a more common difeafe 

 than that mentioned at Clafs I. 1. 2. 10. 



M. M. MetaHj* 



