Zoonomia; Or, the Laws of Organic Life, Vol. II

by Erasmus Darwin

[II]. Externally, heat, electricity.

[III]. Ether, essential oils.

[IV]. Oxygen gas.

[V]. Passions of love, joy, anger.

[VI]. Labour, play, agitation, friction.

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Art. [III].

SECERNENTIA.

[I]. Those things which increase the irritative motions, which constitute secretion, are termed secernentia; which are as various as the glands, which they stimulate into action.

[1]. Diaphoretics, as aromatic vegetables, essential oils, ether, volatile alcali, neutral salts, antimonial preparations, external heat, exercise, friction, cold water for a time with subsequent warmth, blisters, electric fluid.