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

 the fame reafon as the laft article. 



But this diie^-e is fometimes of a dangerous nature ; the in- 

 -teftinal abforption being fo impaired, that the aliment is faid to 

 come away unJiminifhed in quantity, and almoft unchanged by 

 the powers of digeflion, and is then called lientery. 



The mucus of the rectum fometimes cemes away like pellu- 

 .cid hart (hoi n jelly, .and liquefies by heat like that, towards the 

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

 ; the mucus not bting abforbed, and thus refenables the catarrh of 

 feme old people. 



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

 -Flannel iliirt in cold weather. Clyfters with opium. Friction. 

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



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

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

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

 or uterus, and not from an increafed fecretion. This I fufpect 

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

 icribed at Clafs I. I. 2. n. attends menftruation, or is a dif- 

 charge inftead of it, and thus refembles the venereal orgafm of 

 female quadrupeds. The difeharge in the cold kind being more 

 faline, is liable to excoriate the part, and thus produce fmarting 

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



M. M. Increafe the evacuation by ftool and by perfpiration, 

 by taking rhubarb every night, about fix or ten grains with one'; 

 grain of opium forfome months. Flannel fhirt in winter. Balfarn 

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

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

 fprinkling the loins and thighs, or fponging them with cold 

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

 hartfhorn jelly, are recommended by fome. Tincture of can- 

 tharldes fometimes feems of fervice given from ten to twenty 

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

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

 lower part of the belly, is faid to have fometimes fucceeded by 

 increasing abforption by its compreflion in the manner of a ban- 

 dage. A folution of metallic falts, as white vitriol, fixty grains 

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

 vagina. Cold bath. 



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

 and pellucid, it muft arife from the want of abforprioii of the 

 membranes of the urethra, rather than from an increafed fecre- 

 tion from them. This I fuppofe to be a more common difeafe 



that mentioned at Clafs I. i. 2. 10. 



M. M. Metallfc 



