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If there be a bitter taste, it may be taken away by vomits, purges, 
and other things which evacuate bile. What is called the nidorous 
taste, arising from putrid humors, is torrected by acids. A salt taste 
is cured by plentiful dilution with watery liquors. An acid taste is 
toyed by alkalies. — Soe 
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The sense of touching may be hurt. by any thing that obstructs 
the nervous influence, or prevents its being regularly conveyed to 
of touching; as pressure, extreme cold, &c. It may 
be hurt by too great a degree of sensibility, when the nerve 
ciently covered by the scarf-skin, or where there is too 
sion of it, or it is too delicate. Whatever disorders the 
the brains and nerves, hurts the sense of touching. 
it appears to proceed from the same general causes as palsy 
plexy, and requires nearly the same mode of treatment. 
or defect of touching, which arises from an obstruc- 
tion of the cutaneous nerves, such medicines as excite the action of 
the nerves, or stimulate the system, may be used. For this purpose, 
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_ zanthoxylum, Cayenne pepper, horse-radish, &c. may be taken in- 
- wardly; the disordered parts at the same time may be frequently 
rubbed with arse-smart, fresh nettles, and such like. 
‘Nothing so much relaxes the nervous system, so much blunts the 
acuteness of every sense, and destroys its energy, as intemperance. 
To say of a man when drunk, that he has lost his senses, is lite- 
rally true in the most com 
rally tru prehensive meaning of the werd. He — 
can neither see, hear, taste, smell, or feel, with exactness; and 
though he may flatter himse 
M, that with the return of sobriety, he 
recovers his senses also, yet they become more and more impaired 
by every debauch, till frequent repetitions of the frantic indulgence 
consign him to blindness, to deafness, and to the grave. Excessin 
eating produces the same effects, and hike the touch of the torpedo, 
benumbs every faculty. It particularly vitiates the taste and eu, 
and thus defeats the chief purposes for which these senses were — 
given, to inform us of the wholesome or noxious properties of every 
thing we eat and drink. : : z 
_. Uncleanliness is also highly injurious to the organs of 
Perhaps the benignity of Nature is not displayed in any 
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endeavors to avert it. She has left us so litle to do, that we — 
serve no pity for the severest punishment of our m . pee - 
kindly she has guarded the extremities of the nerves pd 
body, the interior parts of the nose, the mouth ee a t ° Sim 
against external annoyance! Observe with what elloits, enurely 
independent of our will, she strives to relieve those delicate organs 
fr ! The uneasiness we feel upon such» oécasions: 
from all impurities ! r FOES 
ought to rouse our immediate attention. Shall we suffer dirt 
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to gather upon the skin, to dull the sense of feeling, to obstruct & 
