ian bole, chalk, creta, crab's claws,
chelae 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. Aethiops mineral.

11. Divided by calcareous earth. Hydrargyrus cum creta.

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.

X. Bandage spread with emplastrum e minio, or with carpenter's glue mixed
with one twentieth part of honey.

XI. Portland's powder its continued use pernicious, and of hops in beer.

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ART. V.

INVERTENTIA.

I. Those things, which invert the natural order of the successive
irritative motions, are termed invertentia.

1. Emetics invert the motions of the stomach, duodenum, and oesophagus.

2. Violent cathartics invert the motions of the lacteals, and intestinal
lymphatics.

3. Violent errhines invert the nasal lymphatics, and those of the frontal
and maxillary sinuses. And medicines producing nausea, invert the motions
of the lymphatics ab