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HEALTH AND DISEASE 



Class of Medicine. 

 Emollients. 



Expectorants. 



Febrifuges. 

 Hypnotics or Sopori- 

 fics. 



Action. 



Give suppleness and softness to 

 the parts to which they are applied. 



Cause the free discharge of secre- 

 tions from the air-passages. 



See Antipyretics. 

 Induce sleep. 



Irritants and Counter- Irritants increase the circulation 

 irritants. in a part and restore it to a normal 



condition. When applied to one part 

 of the body with the object of arrest- 

 ing disease in another part they are 

 called counter-irritants. 



Laxatives. Soften the faeces and cause a 



more frequent evacuation of the 

 bowels. 



Mydriatics. 

 Myotics. 



Purgatives. 



Rubefacients. 



Sedatives. 



Sialogogues. 



Soporifics. 

 Styptics. 



Tonics. 



Cause the pupil to dilate. 

 Cause the pupil to contract. 



Increase the action of the bowels, 

 promote secretion of intestinal fluid 

 and cause intestinal evacuation. 



Produce slight congestion and 

 redness of the part to which they 

 are applied. 



Diminish the sensibility of a 

 part, or of the entire body. 



Vermicides and Ver- 

 mifuges. 



Stimulate the salivary glands and 

 increase the secretion of saliva. 



See Hypnotics. 



Stop the flow of blood from 

 divided vessels. 



Strengthen the body as a whole, 

 or parts composing it. 



See Anthelmintics. 



Examples. 



Poultices, oil, glycerine, 

 paraffin, lard, vaseline. 



Iodide of potassium, tar- 

 tamed antimony, ipecacu- 

 anha, ammonium chloride, 

 squill. 



Opium, morphia, chloral 

 hydrate, bromide of potas- 

 sium. 



Liniments of ammonia, tur- 

 pentine, croton, iodine, bin- 

 iodide of mercury, canthar- 

 ides. 



Bran mashes, linseed and 

 linseed cake, green food, 

 small repeated doses of castor 

 oil, linseed oil. 



Atropine, belladonna. 



Calabar bean, eserine, 

 jaborandi, morphine, opium. 



Aloes, croton oil, linseed 

 oil, castor oil, sodium sul- 

 phate, magnesium sulphate, 

 calomel. 



Soap liniment, &c. 



Local sedatives. Aconite, 

 belladonna, carbolic acid, 

 chloral, opium, and morphia. 



General sedatives. Hydro- 

 cyanic acid, aconite, bella- 

 donna, chloral, opium, and 

 morphia. 



Local. Mustard, ginger, 

 mineral acids. 



General. Compounds of 

 iodine and mercury. 



Mineral acids, alum, ferric 

 chlorides, tannin, actual 

 cautery. 



Salts of iron, strychnia, 

 mineral acids, quinine, nux 

 vomica, &c. 



