:LASS I. a. 3. i. OF IRRITATION, *i 



ORDO II. 



Decreafed Irritation. 



GENUS III. 

 With decreafed Aclion of the Abforbent Syjlem. 



SOME decreafe of heat attends thefe difeafes, though in a lets 

 ;gree than thofe of the laft genus, becaufe the abforbent fyftem 

 " glands do not generate fo much heat in their healthy ftate of 



tion as the fecerning fyftem of glands, as explained in Clafs 



i- 3- 



SPECIES. 



1. Mucus faucium frigidus. Cold mucus from the throat* 

 Jvluch mucus, of rarher a faline tafte, and lefs mfpifiated than 

 ulual, is evacuated from the fauces by hawking, owing to the 

 deficient abibrption of the thinner parts of it. This becomes a 

 habit in feme elderly people, who are continually fpitting it out 

 of their mouths ; and has probably been brought on by taking 

 ihuff, or fmoking tobacco ; which by frequently ftimulating the 

 fauces have at length 'rendered the abforbent veiTels lefs excita- 

 ble by the natural ftimulus of the faline part of the fecretion, 

 which ought to be reabforbed, as ibon as fecreted. 



M. M. A few grains of powder of bark frequently put into 

 the mouth, and gradually diffufed over the fauces. A gargle of 

 barley water. 



2. Sudor frigidus. The cold dampnefs of the hands of fome 

 people is caufed by the deficient abforption of perfpirable matter ; 

 the clammy or vifcid feel of it is owing to the mucous part being 

 left upon the (kin. The coldnefs is produced both by the de- 

 creafed action of the abforbent fyftem, and by the evaporation of 

 a greater quantity of the perfpirable matter into the air, which 

 ought to have been abforbed. 



M. M. Warn the hands in lime water, or with a fmall quan- 

 tity of volatile alkali in water. 



3. Catarrhus frigidus. The thin difcharge from the noftrils 

 in cold weather. The abforbent veflels become torpid by the 

 diminution of external heat, fooner than the fecerning ones, 

 which are longer kept warm by the circulating blood, from 

 which they felecl: the fluid they fecrete j whereas the abiorb^nt 



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