CLASS I. i. 3. $. OF IRRITATION. 3 1 



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

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



5. Cotiftipatio al-vi. Coltivenefs from increafed action of the 

 inteftinal abforbents. The feces are hardened in lumps called 

 fcybala ; which are fometimes obliged to be extracted from the 

 rectum with a kind of marrow fpoon. This is faid to have hap- 

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

 mucus is alfo hardened fo as to line the interlines, and to come 

 away in fkins, rolled up as they pafs along, fo as to refemble 

 worms, for which they are frequently miftaken ; and fometimes 

 it is evacuated in itill larger pieces, fo as to counterfeit the form 

 of the inteftines, and has been miftaken for a portion of them. 

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

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

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

 called Bezoar. 



M. M. Cathartics. Diluents, fruit, oil, foap, fulphur, warm. 

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

 2. 4. 18. 



6. Cutls arida. Dry fkin. This dry fkin is not attended with 

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

 abforption is great, and the fecreted material upon it vifcid, as 

 on the hairy fcalp, the fkin becomes covered with hardened mu- 

 cus ; which adheres fo as not to be eafily removed, as the fcurf 

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

 Tinea, or Lepra. The moifture, which appears on the fkin be- 

 neath refmous or oily platters, or which is feen to adhere to fuch 

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

 fpirable matter, and not to their increafing the production of it, 

 as fome have idly imagined. 



M. M. Warm bathing, oil externally, oil-fkin gloves, refm- 

 ous plafters. Wax. 



7. Urina parca colorata. Diminiihed urine, which is high col- 

 oured, and depofits an earthy fediment, when coM, is owing to 

 the great action of the urinary abforbents. See Clafs I. i. 2. 

 4. In fome dropfies the cutaneous abforbents are paralytic, as 

 well as thofe opening into the cellular membrane ; and hence, 

 no moifture being acquired from the atmofphere, or from the 

 cellular membrane, great thirft is excited - 9 and great abforption 

 from all parts, where the abforbents are (till capable of a6tion. 

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

 with copious fediment ; and the kidneys are erroneoufly blamed 

 for not doing their office ; itimulant diuretic medicines aregiv-. 

 en in vain ; and very frequently the unhappy patient is reftrain- 

 e-d from quenching his thirft, and dies a martyr to falfe theory. 



M. M. Diluent 



