24 DISEASES CLASS 1.1.2.11. 



cold bath, injections of metallic salts, flannel shirt, change of the 

 form of the accustomed chair or saddle of the patient. 



11. Fluor albus calides. Warm iluor albus. Increased secre- 

 tion of mucus in the vagina or uterus without venereal desire or 

 venereal infection. It is distinguished from the iluor albus frigi- 

 dus by the increased sense of warmth in the part, and by the 

 greater opacity or spissitude of the material discharged; as the 

 thinner parts are re-absorbed by the increased action of the ab- 

 sorbents, along with the saline part, whence no smarting or ex- 

 coriation attends it. 



M. M. Mucilage, as isinglass, hartshorn jelly, gum arabic. 

 Ten grains of rhubarb every night. Calico or flannel shift, 

 opium, balsams. See Class I. 2. 3. 7. 



12. Hcemorrkois alba. White piles. An increased discharge 

 of mucus from the rectum frequently mistaken for matter; is said 

 to continue a few weeks, and recur like the bleeding piles; and 

 to obey lunar influence. See Class I. 2. I. 6. 



M. M. Abstinence from vinous spirit. Balsam of copaiva. 

 Spice swallowed in large fragments, as ten or fifteen black pep- 

 per-corns cut in half, and taken after dinner and supper. Ward's 

 Easte, consisting of black pepper and the powdered root of He- 

 snium Enula. 



13. Serum e vesicatorio. Discharge from a blister. The ex- 

 cretory ducts of glands terminate in membranes, and are endu- 

 ed with great irritability, and many of them with sensibility; the 

 latter perhaps in consequence of their facility of being excitable 

 into great action; instances of this are the terminations of the 

 gall-duct in the duodenum, and of the salivary and lachrymal 

 glands in the mouth and eye; which produce a greater secre- 

 tion of their adapted fluids, when the ends of their excretory 

 ducts are stimulated. 



The external skin consists of the excretory ducts of the capil- 

 laries, with the mouths of the absorbents; when these are stimu- 

 lated by the application of cantharides, or by a slice of the fresh 

 root of bryonia alba bound on it, the capillary glands pour an in- 

 creased quantity of fluid upon the skin by their increased action; 

 and the absorbent vessels imbibe a greater quantity of the more 

 fluid and saline part of it; whence a thick mucous or serous fluid 

 'is deposited between the skin and cuticle. 



14. Perspiratiofatida. Fetid perspiration. The uses of the 

 perspirable matter are to keep the skin soft and pliant, for the 

 purposes of its easier flexibility during the activity of our limbs in 

 locomotion, and for the preservation of the accuracy of the sense 

 of touch, which is diffused under the whole surface of it to 

 guard us against the injuries of external bodies; in the same 



