[IV]. Sorbentia affecting the veins.
[1]. Water-cress, sisymbrium nasturtium aquaticum, mustard, sinapis, scurvy-grass cochlearia hortensis, horse-radish cochlearia armoracia, cuckoo-flower, cardamine, dog's-grass, dandelion, leontodon taraxacon, cellery apium, cabbage brassica.
[2]. Chalybeates, bitters, and opium, after sufficient evacuation.
[3]. Externally vinegar, friction, electricity.
[V]. Sorbentia affecting the intestines.
[1]. Rhubarb, rheum palmatum, oak-galls, gallæ quercinæ, tormentil, tormentilla erecta, cinquefoil potentilla, red-roses, uva ursi, simarouba.
[2]. Logwood, hæmatoxylum campechianum, succus acaciæ, dragon's blood, terra japonica, mimosa catechu.
[3]. Alum, earth of alum, Armenian bole, chalk, creta, crab's claws, chelæ cancrorum, white clay, cimolia, calcined hartshorn, cornu cervi calcinatum, bone-ashes.
[VI]. Sorbentia affecting the liver, stomach, and other viscera. Rust of iron, filings of iron, salt of steel, sal martis, blue vitriol, white vitriol, calomel, emetic tartar, sugar of lead, white arsenic.
[VII]. Sorbentia affecting venereal ulcers. Mercury dissolved or corroded by the following acids:
[1]. Dissolved in vitriolic acid, called turpeth mineral, or hydrargyrus vitriolatus.
[2]. Dissolved in nitrous acid, called hydrargyrus nitratus ruber.
[3]. Dissolved in muriatic acid, mercurius corrosivus sublimatus, or hydrargyrus muriatus.
[4]. Corroded by muriatic acid. Calomel.
[5]. Precipitated from muriatic acid, mercurius precipitatus albus, calx hydrargyri alba.
[6]. Corroded by carbonic acid? The black powder on crude mercury.
[7]. Calcined, or united with oxygen.
[8]. United with animal fat, mercurial ointment.
[9]. United with sulphur. Cinnabar.
[10]. Partially united with sulphur. Æthiops mineral.
[11]. Divided by calcareous earth. Hydrargyrus cum cretâ.
[12]. Divided by vegetable mucilage, by sugar, by balsams.
[VIII]. Sorbentia affecting the whole system. Evacuations by venesection and catharsis, and then by the exhibition of opium.
[IX]. Sorbentia externally applied.
[1]. Solutions of mercury, lead, zinc, copper, iron, arsenic; or metallic calces applied in dry powder, as cerussa, lapis calaminaris.
[2]. Bitter vegetables in decoctions and in dry powders, applied externally, as Peruvian bark, oak bark, leaves of wormwood, of tansey, camomile flowers or leaves.
[3]. Electric sparks, or shocks.