GLASS I. 1. 3. 5. OP IRRITATION. SI 



onions, warm bath for half an hour every day for a month. In- 

 haling the steam of water, with or without volatile alkali. Soap, 



5. Constipatio alvi. Costiveness from increased action of the 

 intestinal absorbents. The feces are hardened in lumps called 

 scybala; which are sometimes obliged to be extracted from the 

 rectum with a kind of marrow spoon. This is said to have hap- 

 pened from the patient having taken much rust of iron. The 

 mucus is also hardened so as to line the intestines, and to come 

 away in skins, rolled up as they pass along, so as to resemble 

 worms, for which they are frequently mistaken; and sometimes 

 it is evacuated in still larger pieces, so as to counterfeit the form 

 of the intestines, and has been mistaken for a portion of them. 

 Balls of this kind, nearly as heavy as marble, and considerably 

 hard, from two inches to five in diameter, are frequently found in 

 the bowels of horses. Similar balls found in goats have been 

 called Bezoar. 



M. M. Cathartics. Diluents, fruit, oil, soap, sulphur, warm 

 bath. Sprinkling with cold water, cool clothing. See Class I. 

 2. 4. 18. 



6. Cutisarida. Dry skin. This dry skin is not attended with 

 coldness as in the beginning of fever- fits. Where this cutaneous 

 absorption is great, and the secreted material upon it viscid, as 

 on the hairy scalp, the skin becomes covered with hardened mu- 

 cus; which adheres so as not to be easily removed, as the scurf 

 on the head; but is not attended with inflammation like the 

 Tinea, or Lepra. The moisture, which appears on the skin be- 

 neath resinous or oily plasters, or which is seen to adhere to such 

 plasters, is owing to their preventing the exhalation of the per- 

 spirable matter, and not to their increasing the production of it, 

 as some have idly imaginned. 



M. M. Warm bathing, oil externally, oil-skin gloves, resinous 

 plasters. Wax. 



7. Urinaparca colorata. Diminished urine, which is high co- 

 loured, and deposits an earthy sediment, when cold, is owing to 

 the great action of the urinary absorbents. See Class I. 1. 2. 

 4. In some dropsies the cutaneous absorbents are paralytic, as 

 well as those opening into the cellular membrane; and hence 

 no moisture being acquired from the atmosphere, or from the 

 cellular membrane, great thirst is excited; and great absorption 

 from all parts, where the absorbents are still capable of action. 

 Hence the urine is in very small quantity, and of deep colour, 

 with copious sediment; and the kidneys are erroneously blamed 

 for not doing their office; stimulant diuretic medicines are given 

 in vain; and very frequently the unhappy patient is restrain- 

 ed from quenching his thirst, and dies a martyr to false theory. 



