Art. VII. i.i. TORPENTIA. n 



al, mentha pulegium, peppermint, mentha piperita, ether, 

 camphor. 4. Spirit of hartfhom, oleum animale, fponge 

 burnt to charcoal, black fnuffs of candles, which confift 

 principally of animal charcoal, wood-foot, oil of amber. 

 5. The incitantia, as opium, alcohol, vinegar. 6. Ex- 

 ternally the fmoke of burnt feathers, oil of amber, vola- 

 tile fait applied to the noftrils, blifters, finapifms. 



II. Inverted motions of the ftomach are reclaimed by opium, 



alcohol, blifters, crude mercury, finapifms, camphor and 

 opium externally, clyfters with afafcetida. 



III. Inverted motions of the inteftinal lymphatics are reclaim- 

 ed by mucilaginous diluents, and by inteftinal forben- 

 tia, as rhubarb, logwood, calcined hartlhorn, Armenian 

 bole ; and laftly by incitantia, as opium. 



IV. Inverted motions of the urinary lymphatics are reclaim- 

 ed by cantharides, turpentine, refin, the forbentia, and 

 opium, with calcareous earth of alum, by oil externally, 

 warm-bath. 



V. Inverted motions of the inteftinal canal are reclaimed by 



calomel, aloe, crude mercury, blifters, warm-bath, clyf- 

 ters with afafcetida, clyfters of iced water ? or of fpring 

 water further cooled by fait diflblved in water contained 

 in an exterior vefTel ? Where there exifts an introfuf- 

 ception of the bowel in children, could the patient be 

 held up for a time by the feet with his head downwards, 

 or be laid with his body on an inclined plane with his 

 head downwards, and crude mercury be injected as a 

 clyfter to the quantity of two or three pounds ? 



Art. VII. 

 TORPENTIA. 



I. Those things, which diminifh the exertion of the irrita- 

 tive motions, are termed torpentia. 



1. As mucus, mucilage, water, bland oils, and whatever 

 poflefles lefs ftimulus than our ufual food. Diminution of heat, 

 light, found, oxygen, and of all other ftimuli ; venefeclion, nau- 

 fea, and anxiety. 



2. Thofe things which chemically deftroy acrimony, as calca- 

 reous earth, foap, tin, alkalies, in cardialgia ; or which prevent 



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