[301]. Crell’s Annals, 1798. vol. 1.
[302]. A remedy may even owe its virtues to a precipitation, produced by admixture, as I have already stated.
[303]. See my work on Medical Chemistry, Sect. Cohesion.
[304]. Clyster from κλύζω eluo, to wash out.
[305]. Practical Observations on the Treatment and Cure of several Varieties of Pulmonary Consumption; and on the Effects of the Vapour of Boiling Tar in that Disease. By Sir A. Crichton, M. D. F. R. S. &c. London, 1823.
[306]. Pliny (Nat Hist. Lib. xxiii. cap. 6.) has the following interesting allusion to the subject of Tar fumes, “Silvas eas duntaxat quæ picis resinæque gratia raduntur, utilissimus esse phthisicis aut qui longa ægritudine non recolligent vires, satis constat; et illum cæliaëra plus ita quam navigationum Ægyptiani proficere, plus quam lactes herbedos per montium æstiva potus.”
[307]. Εμβροκη, from βρεκω, irrigo.
[308]. Illinire, to besmear.
[309]. κολλυρὶον. This term was formerly applied to any medicament, solid or liquid, employed to restrain defluxions; from κωλύω, inhibo to stop, and ῤοῦς fluxio, a running.
[310]. καταπλασσω illino, to besmear.