308 HUNTERS. 



nal ; and are therefore calculated as preven- 

 tatives to tlie possible inconveniences of im- ^ 

 pending repletion ; preservatives of health, 

 or necessary preludes to the completion of 



PERFECT CONDITION. 



The same elucidation likewise demon- 

 strates the consistency of increasing the pro- 

 portions, or enlarging the doses, when more 

 distant services are expected by calling the 

 remote powers into action, for the purpo^ses 

 so particularly explained; for instance, in 

 o'reat repletion of the vessels, fulness of the 

 carcase, heaviness of the head and eyes, 

 swelling and tension of the legs, and such 

 other causes as will be hereafter explained. 

 Gentle cathartm, acting merely as observable 

 laxatives, can never be expected to reach the 

 seat of these complaints ; such brisk purges 

 only can be adopted with propriety, as will, 

 by their continued stimulus, come into con- 

 tact with, and additionally act upon, the very 

 interstices of the stomach and intestines, after 

 the excrementitious superflux is thrown off : 

 i^xciting, by such means, the lymphatics and 

 lactcals to disgorge some portion of their 

 f\ifra contents, (distinguished from time im- 



