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count in the advanced stage of the disease. Reasons 
for attacking the bowels in this direful malady, 
deduced from the symptoms, supposed causes, and 
post-mortem examinations. In apoplexy, useful. 
In palsy, when useful. In gutta serena, their ef- 
fect. Of the use of purgatives in surgical practice. — 
In hyprocondriasis, indispensable. This disorder — 
in females, accompanied by hysteria, already no-— 
ticed as requiring cathartics, as rhubarb and as-— 
safetida united. In the treatment of all dropsies, — 
cathartics in union with other medicines of dif- — 
ferent virtues, as diuretic, tonic and astringent, — 
&c. indispensible. Ina word, without purgatives — 
there are few serious diseases, involving the vis- — 
ceral functions, and in any degree impairing or — 
suppressing them, which can_ be judiciously 
treated. The necessity instilled, of the studen 
becoming thoroughly acquainted with the peculi 
arities of operation, in all the different subjects 
of this class. General rules necessary to be ob- 
served in the administration of cathartics of what- 
ever description. ee 
