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16 GENERAL PRINCIPLES. 



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ODOJITALGIC, allaying or curing the tooth-ache. '\ 



OPHTHALMIC, useful In diseases of the Eves. 

 PECTORAL, useful in diseases of the breast and lungs. 

 PELLENT or REPELLENT, charging the course of dischar- 



ges, or repelling the -morbid fluids. 



PHTI1IRL\C or PSORIC, destroying Lice and Itch. 



PHRENETIC or PHANTASTIC, acting on the brain, pro- 

 ducing delirium and dreams. 



PROPELLENT, moving the fluids. 



PROPHYLACTIC, preserving health, or preventic, a peculiar 



disease. i 



P^EFRIGERANT, cooling, lessening the heat of the body, al- 

 laying local or general inflammations. 

 RESTORATIVE, restoring strength. 

 REVIVING, difTusible stimulant, relieving from faintness, 



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torpors, and necropsy, 



IIEPERCUSIVE, throwing back an eruption, a kind of repel- 



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lent. 



REVULSIVE, a local stimulant, promoting a change or re- 

 vulsion in a disease- 



RUBZPASCIENT, topical remedy, exciting redness and heat. 



SEDATIVE, albying inordinate motions and pains, by lessen- 

 ing the actioa of ths heart and circulation of the blood, 



SIALOGOGUE or SALlVATQiiY, exciting salivation. 



SOLVENT or RESOLVENT, a kind of Diluent, promoting 

 solution of the solids, acting on the lymphatic system, useful ii^ 

 scrofula, &c. 



SOPORIFIC or HYPNOTIC, promoting sleep. 

 SORBEFACIENT, raising pimples, &c. 



SPECIFIC, a remedy supposed to act especially on a disease- 

 STIMULANT, acting by stimulating the body or some parts 



of it. 

 STINGING, acting like nettles by producing a burning pain. 



STOMACHIC, promoting appetite, useful in diseases of the 

 stomach, and cholics. 



STYPTIC, sloping bloody discharges. 



SUDORIFIC, promoting a copious perspiration. ' 



SUPPURATIVE or RESOLUTIVE, promoting suppuration ol 

 ulcers, tumors, S;c, 



