As to the Cure of such a Case; besides other Evacuations, Acid Medicines and Lixivial Salts must certainly do Service; these by their Diuretic force causing a Depletion of the Vessels. This is the Foundation upon which Starky compounded his Pacific Pill. Generous Wine, which the Ancients gave for an Antidote, can be no other ways useful, than as It dissolves the Resinous Clammy Part of the Opium sticking to the Coats of the Stomach, and so forwards its Expulsion by other Helps, which cause a Contraction of the Muscular Fibres.
Footnotes to Essay IV.
[(147)] Vid. Pitcarn. de Circulasione Sanguinis in animalibus, §. 20.
[(148)] Vid. Belon. Voyag. lib. 3. c. 15.
[(149)] Simpl. Medicam. Facult. l. 3. c. 18.
[(150)] Respons. & Curat. Medic. p. 162.
[(151)] Medicin. Ægypt. l. 4. c. 1.