ad. Temporary languor of the physical and 
moral system. 
sd. Profound sleep. and subsequent healthy re- 
action—transient, or more or less permanent, in 
proportion to the intensity of the existing diseased 
actions for which the remedy has been prescribed. 
Their remote consecutive effects, are:x— 
ist. An increased circulation in the liver, owing 
to the general impulse given to the abdominal vis- 
cera. 
ad. Invigorated powers of digestion, (unless the 
emetics have been too often repeated.) 
Their durable consecutive effects are: 
Ist. A resuscitated energy of the previously de- 
pressed mental faculties, much morbid 
cerebral excitement had pre ie ee 
ad. A Beneficial change in the moral constitu- 
tion of the individual, perceived in a greater or less 
degree. in proportion as his temperament should 
be choleric or bilfious, or phlegmatic. ‘The tas 
oe 
= 
cible becoming less peevish and ireful, the man of 
phlegm less heavy and charlish. To recapitulate: 
T have arranged the effects of emetics into 
1. Their primary, = : 
2. Their secondary, 
4, Their proximate consec 
ecutive, 
5. Their remote consecutive, — 
6. Their durable consecutive. = sy 
All of these, however, have reference in point of 
time. from the first vomiting act, to a few days or 
a week. orat farthest two weeks. . After this the 
curative and healthy impulses of the act of full 
vomiting may be suppo: to have passed away and é: 
the system to have returned to its en vi 
tine of susceptibilities of ordinary 
