8o TORPENTIA, Art. VII. 2 i 5 



ry hemorrhages, every one juftly applies to it, as the certain and 

 •nly cure. 



V. When the circulation is carried on too violently, as in 

 inflammatory fevers, thofe medicines, which invert the motions 

 of foine parts of the fyftem, retard the motions of fome other 

 parts, which are suTociated with them. Hence fmall dofes of 

 emetic tartar, and ipecacuanha, and large dofes of nitre, by pro- 

 ducing naufea debilitate and leffen the energy of the circulation, 

 •and are thence ufeful in inflammatory difeafes. It muft be add- 

 ed, that it nitre be fwallowed in powder, or foon after it is dif- 

 folved, it contributes to leiTen the circulation by the cold it gen- 

 erates, like ice-water, or the external application of cold air. 



VI. The refpiration of air mixed with a greater proportion 

 of azote than is found in the common-atmofphere, or of air mix- 

 ed with hydrogen, or with carbonic acid gas, fo that the quanti- 

 ty of oxygen might be lefs than ufual, would probably act: in 

 cafes of inflammation with great advantage. In confumptions 

 this might be mod conveniently and effectually applied, if a 

 phthifical patient could refide day and night in a porter or ale 

 brewery, where great quantities of thofe liquors were perpetu- 

 ally fermenting in vats or open barrels ; or in fome great manu- 

 factory of wines from raifms or from fugar. 



Externally the application of carbonic acid gas to cancers 

 and other ulcers inltead of atmofpheric air may prevent their 

 enlargement, by preventing the union of oxygen with the mat- 

 ter, and thus producing a new contagious animal acid. 



III. Catalogue of Torpentia. 



1. Venefeclion. Arteriotomy. 



2. Cold water, cold air, refpiration of air with lefs oxygen. 

 j. Vegetable mucilages. 



a. Seeds.— Barley, oats, rice, young peas, flax, cucumber, 



melon, &c. 



b. Gums.— Arabic, tragacanth, Senegal, of cherry-trees. 

 6\ Roots.— Turnip, potatoe, althea, orchis, fnow-drop. 



d. Herbs.— Spinach, brocoli, mercury. 

 4. Vegetable acids, lemon, orange, currants, goofeberries, 



apples, grape, &c. 

 g. Animal mucus, hartmorn jelly, veal broth, chicken water, 



oil r* fat ? cream ? 

 6. Mineral acids, of vitriol, nitre, fea-falt. 

 n. Silence, darknefs. 

 $. Invertcntia in fmall dofes, nitre, emetic tartar, ipecacuanha 



eiven fo as to induce naufea. 



9. Antacids 



