[1]. Sweet subacid fruits. Prunes, prunus domestica. Cassia sistula. Tamarinds, crystals of tartar, unrefined sugar. Manna. Honey.

[2]. Whey of milk, bile of animals.

[3]. Neutral salts, as Glauber's salt, vitriolated tartar, sea-water, magnesia alba, soap.

[4]. Gum guaiacum. Balsam of Peru. Oleum ricini, castor-oil, oil of almonds, oil of olives, sulphur.

[5]. Senna, cassia senna, jalap, aloe, rhubarb, rheum palmatum.

[6]. Calomel. Emetic tartar, antimonium tartarizatum.

[VI]. Secretion of mucus of the bladder is increased by cantharides, by spirit of turpentine?

[VII]. Secretion of mucus of the rectum is increased by aloe internally, by various clysters and suppositories externally.

[VIII]. Secretion of subcutaneous mucus is increased by blisters of cantharides, by application of a thin slice of the fresh root of white briony, by sinapisms, by root of horse-radish, cochlearia armoracia. Volatile alcali.

[IX]. Mild errhines. Marjoram. Origanum. Marum, tobacco.

[X]. Secretion of tears is increased by vapour of sliced onion, of volatile alcali. By pity, or ideas of hopeless distress.

[XI]. Secretion of sensorial power in the brain is probably increased by opium, by wine, and perhaps by oxygen gas added to the common air in respiration.


Art. [IV].

SORBENTIA.