6. It renders the bowels, when costive, more easily moved by purging physic.
7. It renders the action of mercury more speedy and more certain, in exciting a salivation.
8. It disposes the body to sweat spontaneously, or renders diluting and diaphoretic medicines more effectual for that purpose.
9. It suddenly removes a dryness, and gradually a blackness, from the tongue. Of the former effect of bleeding, I saw two instances, and of the latter, one, during the autumn of 1794.
10. It removes or lessens pain in every part of the body, and more especially in the head.
11. It removes or lessens the burning heat of the skin, and the burning heat in the stomach, so common and so distressing in the yellow fever.
12. It removes a constant chilliness, which sometimes continues for several days, and which will neither yield to cordial drinks, nor warm bed-clothes.
13. It checks such sweats as are profuse without affording relief, and renders such as are partial and moderate, universal and salutary.
14. It sometimes checks a diarrhœa and tenesmus, after astringent medicines have been given to no purpose. This has often been observed in the measles.