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emetics, cathartics, diuretics, &c. &c. from all of 
which, articles endued with the power of antispas- 
‘modic operation may be drawn, according to the 
condition of the individual system spasmodically 
disordered. Excessive irritability from watchful- 
ness, the angry passions, the sudden abstraction of - 
a customary stimulus as in mania 4 potu, &c. 
may produce spasm, wounds, and irritation in in- 
fants, from indigestible food, dentition, worms, &c. 
also produce it ; and it occurs in epileptic habits, 
and in delicate females, attended, if not induced by 
a state of extreme debility or want of tone in the 
tem the remedy which is to cure the spasm, and _ 
must therefore be considered an antispasmodic, 
must vary,—it may be a simple tonic, or an astrin- 
gent tonic, a cathartic, an anthlementic, a diaphor- 
etic, an emetic, blood-letting, the cold bath, bran- 
dy, a narcotic, as opium or camphor, or moral 
discipline, and mental castigation and reform. 
The subject pursued in detail, shewing eventually 
the inutility of classifying the articles of the 
science, which so-intermingle with each other, 
‘their respective properties. 
An enquiry into the circumstances which contra- 
indicate the absolute antispasmodic substances, 
in cases where spasmodic’ disease or derange- 
ment exists. The difference between tonic and 
clonic. spasm. A glance at the « spasm of the 
extreme cuticular vessels,’ the foundation of 
Cullens’ Theory of Fever, and his remedies ‘and 
rationale of their operation. A designation of the 
_ diseases in which the narcotics, as antispasmodics, 
are preferable to any other. — ee 
