Art. HI. i.i. SECERNENTI A, 3 s 



Nicotiana tabacum 5 tobacco ; the effential oil, decoction 



of the leaf. 

 Atropa belladonna ; deadly nightmade, the berries. 

 Datura ftramoneum ; thorn-apple, the fruit boiled in milk. 

 Hyofcyamus reticulatus ; henbane, the feeds and leaves. 

 CynoglofTum ; hounds tongue. 

 Menifperftium, cocculus ; Indian berry. 

 Amygdalus amarus 5 bitter almond. 

 Cicuta j hemlock. Conium maculatum I 

 Strychnos nux vomica ? 

 Delphinium ftavifagria ? 

 II. Externally, heat, electricity. 



III. Ether, elfential oils. 



IV. Oxygen gas. 



V. Paflions of love, joy, anger. 

 VI. Labour, play, agitation, friction. 



Art. III. 

 SECERNENTIA. 



I. Those things which increafe the irritative motions, which 

 conflitute fecretion, are termed fecernentia ; which are as vari- 

 ous as the glands, which they ftimulate into action; 



1. Diaphoretics, as aromatic vegetables, efiential oils, ether, 

 volatile alkali, neutral falts, antimonial preparations, external 

 heat, exercife, friction, cold water for a time with fubfequent 

 warmth, blifters, electric fluid. 



2. Sialagogues, as mercury internally, and pyrethrum exter- 

 nally. 



3. Expectorants, as fquill, onions, gum ammoniac, feneka 

 root, mucilage : fome of thefe increafe the pulmonary perfpira- 

 tion, and perhaps the pulmonary mucus. 



4. Diuretics, as neutral falts, fixed alkali, balfams, refins, af- 

 paragus, cantharides. 



5. Cathartics of the mild kind, as fenna, jalap, neutral falts, 

 manna. They increafe the fecretions of bile, pancreatic juice, 

 and inteftinal mucus. 



6. The mucus of the bladder is increafed by cantharides, and 

 perhaps by oil of turpentine. 



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