diese the atiitnal Sot ep acid Promotes the 
LOCAL STIMULANTS. 
_ CLASS V.—EMETICs. 
"@ substances capable of exciting vomiting, indepen- 
4 from the mere quantity of matter introdu- 
nae. stomach, or of any nauseous taste or flavor. : 
Es The effects of an emetic are, an uneasy sensation in the stomsch, é: 
With ~mausea and vomiting. While the nausea only is present, the 
pulse i is feeble, quick and irregular, and the countenance pale: du- 
poss Aaemoms the face i is flushed, the pulse is quicker, and it remains 
the intervals of vomiting. When the o of. 
S ceased, the nausea goes off- radually ; the patient remains 
, and << inclined to sleep ; otis pulse is weak, but behoue 
€ skin is commonly moist. 
g is sufficiently evident. — 
the stomach is inverted, the diaphragm and 
called into action by association, and the a 
i, the contents of the stomach are for orcibly dischat- 
altic motion of the upper part of the : 
frequently inverted. 
ms thee er rpg ase is thus inverted itis difficult to explain. 
The substances which have this effect no doubt possess _— 
— power, but Ag effect 1 is by no means produced in pri “a 
ow sae of stimulant operation exerted on the stomach, and: 
not been 
vie 
-how such an knemiion can invert the besser 
ashen is very different in “different 
rably varied by disease. 
rally accompanies vomiting, this 
4 conne: some emetics acting without 0c 
2, vi a 
Is epson to their emetic. power. 
