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the body naked to cold air, or sprinkling it with cold water, for 

 the same reason as the last article. 



But this disease is sometimes of a dangerous nature; the in- 

 testinal absorption being so impaired, that the aliment is said to 

 come away undiminished in quantity, and almost unchanged by 

 the powers of digestion, and is then called lientery. 



The mucus of the rectum sometimes comes away like pellu- 

 cid hartshorn jelly, and liquifies by heat like that, towards the 

 end of inirritative ievers, which is owing to the thinner part of 

 the mucus not being absorbed, and thus resembles the catarrh of 

 some old people. 



M. M. Opium, campechy wood, armenian bole. Blister. 

 Flannel shirt in cold weather. Clysters with opium. Friction 

 on the bowels morning and night. Equitation twice a day. 



7. Fluor albus frigidus. Cold fluor albus. In weak constitu- 

 tions, where this discharge is pellucid and thin, it must proceed 

 from want of absorption of the mucous membrane of the vagina, 

 or uterus, and not from an increased secretion. This I suspect 

 to be the most frequent kind of fluor albus; the former one de- 

 scribed at Class I. 1. 2. 11. attends menstruation, or is a dis- 

 charge instead of it, and thus resembles the venereal orgasm of 

 female quadrupeds. The discharge in the cold kind being more 

 saline, is liable to excoriate the part, and thus produce smarting 

 in making water; in its great degree it is difficult to cure. 



M. M. Increase the evacuation by stool and by perspiration, 

 by taking rhubarb every night, about six or ten grains with one 

 grain of opium for some months. Flannel shirt in winter. Balsam 

 copaiva. Gum kino, bitters, chalybeates, friction over the whole 

 skin with flannel morning and night. Partial cold bath, by 

 sprinkling the loins and thighs, or sponging them with cold 

 water. Mucilage, as isinglass boiled in milk; blanc mange 

 hartshorn jelly, are recommended by some. Tincture of can- 

 tharides sometimes seems of service given from ten to twenty 

 drops or more, three or four times a day. A large plaster of 

 burgundy pitch and armenian bole, so as to cover the loins and 

 lower part of the belly, is said to have sometimes succeeded by 

 increasing absorption by its compression in the manner of a band- 

 age. A solution of metallic salts, as white vitriol, sixty grains 

 to a pint; or an infusion of oak-bark may be injected into the 

 vagina. Cold bath. 



8. Gonorrhoea frigida. Cold gleet. Where the gleet is thin 

 and pellucid, it must arise from the want of absorption of the 

 membranes of the urethra, rather than from an increased secre- 

 tion from them. This I suppose to be a more common disease 

 than that mentioned at Class LI. 2. 10, 



