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Nicotiana tabacum ; tobacco ; the eflential oil, decolion 



of the leaf. 



Atropa belladonna ; deadly nightfhade, the berries. 

 Darura ftramoneum ; thorn- apple, the fruit boiled in milk. 

 Hyofcyamus reticulatus ; henbane, the feeds and leaves. 

 Cynogloflum j hounds tongue. 

 Menifpermum, cocculus ; Indian berry. 

 Amygdalus amarus ; bitter almond. 

 Cicuta ; hemlock. Conium maculatum ? 

 Strychnos nux vomica ? 

 Delphinium ftavifagria ? 

 II. Externally, heat, electricity. 



III. Ether, eflential oils. 



IV. Oxygen gas. 



V PafTions of love, joy, anger. 

 VI. Labour, play, agitation, friction. 



ART. III. 

 SECERNENTIA. 



I THOSE THINGS which increafe the irritative motions, which 

 conftitute fecretion, are termed fecernentia ; which are as vari- 

 ous as the glands, which they ftimulate into action. 



1. Diaphoretics, as aromatic vegetables, eflential oils, ether, 

 volatile alkali, neutral falts, antimonial preparations, external 

 heat, exercife, friction, cold water for a time with fubfequent 

 warmth, blifters, electric fluid. 



2. Sialagogues, as mercury internally, and pyrethrum exter- 

 nally. 



3' Expectorants, as fquill, onions, gum ammoniac, feneka 

 root, mucilage : fome of thefe increaie the pulmonary peripira-, 

 tion, and perhaps the pulmonary mucus. 



4. Diuretics, as neutral falts, fixed alkali, balfams, reflns, af- 

 paragus, cantharides. 



3. Cathartics of the mild kind, as fenna, jalap, neutral falts, 

 manna, 'i hey increafe the fecretions of bile, pancreatic juice, 

 and inteftinal mucus. 



6. The mucus of the bladder is increafed by cantharides, and 

 perhaps by oil of turpentine. 



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