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If, instead of that, he were permitted to have, pele-mele, as 
it were, the whole lot of medical excitants set before him, he 
would find himself greatly embarrassed in the choice he 
ought to make, or else likely to run into grave mistakes, if 
he believed himself capable of taking, indifferently, one or 
other of them. On the other hand, if less exclusive, those 
who reject pharmacological classification altogether, but take 
care to point out in the particular history of every medical 
substance, its manner of acting with the influence exerted by 
it over this or that organ or organs, will find themselves 
compelled to acknowledge the recognition among such bodies 
of particular properties, and they cannot admit that each 
of these properties is, so to say, confined to a single substance, 
they will fall themselves into the system of specifics, which 
they, with a sort of disdain, at first rejected. And if several 
medicaments should prove alike in their particular pro- 
perties, why not try at once to associate them in the same 
class ? 
First Division. 
Debilitating Medicines, 
The name of debilitants is given to all such agents, and 
causes in general, as manifest a tendency to weaken the vital 
forces, and to moderate organic activity. 
Medicines enjoying this property, which are ordinarily de- 
scribed under the denomination of antijohlogistics , have for 
their general effects the diminution of heat, sensibility, and 
motility of parts submitted to thier influence, also of regula- 
ting the progress of cretinism in the solids. 
Thus it is that pain and irritation are calmed, the reso- 
lution of disease favoured, and its duration abridged. 
Mallows, les Mauves (Malva.) 
These plants will serve as a type of the natural family of 
mallows (class. Monadeljohia Dobjandria), of which almost all 
