Pharmacologia / Fourth American, from the Seventh London Edition

by John Ayrton Paris

The different Balsams.

fœtid Gums.

c. By stimulating the top of the trachea, and thereby increasing the action of the exhalant vessels of the lungs, by a species of Contiguous Sympathy.

Stimulating Lozenges, Linctusses, The Inhalation of certain vapours, &c.

CL: II.—MEDICINES WHICH DIMINISH THE INORDINATE FLOW OF FLUID INTO THE LUNGS, AND RENDER THE EXPECTORATION OF THE REMAINDER MORE EASY.

a. By removing the debility of the Exhalants.

Sulphate of Zinc.

Bitter Tonics.

b. By increasing the power of the Absorbents.

Digitalis.