atient drank repeated draughts of
subtepid water to the quantity of a gallon or two in a few hours; and
during the greatest part of that time he was not I believe two entire
minutes together without making water. A little blood was seen in his water
the next day, and a soreness continued a day longer without any other
inconvenience.

3. The decoction of foxglove should also be mentioned here, as great
effusions of urine frequently follow its exhibition. See Art. IV. 2. 3. 7.
And an infusion or tincture of tobacco as recommended by Dr. Fowler of
York.

4. Alcohol, and opium, if taken so as to induce slight intoxication, and
the body be kept cool, and much diluting liquids taken along with them,
have similar effect in producing for a time a greater flow of urine, as
most intemperate drinkers must occasionally have observed. This
circumstance seems to have introduced the use of gin, and other vinous
spirits as a diuretic, unfortunately in the gravel, amongst ignorant
people; which disease is generally produced by fermented or spirituous
liquors, and always increased by them.

5. Fear and anxiety are well known to produce a great frequency of making
water. A person, who believed he had made a bad purchase concerning an
estate, told me, that he made five or six pints of water during a sleepless
night, which succeeded his bargain; and it is usual, where young men are
waiting in an anti-room to be examined for college preferment, to see the
chamber-pot often wanted.

V. Cold sweats about the head, neck, and arms, frequently attend those,
whose lungs are oppressed, as in some dropsies and asthma. A cold sweat is
also frequently the harbinger of death. These are from the inverted motions
of the cutaneous lymphatic branches of those parts.

III. CATALOGUE OF INVERTENTIA.

I. Emetics, ipecacuanha, emetic tartar, antimonium tartarisatum, squill,
scilla maritima, carduus benedictus, cnicus acarna, chamoemile, anthemis
nobilis, white vitriol, vitriolum zinci, foxglove, digitalis purpurea,
clysters of tobacco.

II. Violent cathartics, emetic tartar, squill, buckthorn, rhamnus
catharticus, scammonium, convolvulus scammonia, gamboge, elaterium,
colocynth, cucumis colocynthis, veratrum.

III. Violent errhines and sialagogues, Turpeth mineral, hydrargyrus
vitriolatus, asarum europaeum, euphorbium, capsicum, veratrum, nauseous
smells, nauseous ideas.

IV. Violent diuretics, nitre, squill, seneka, cantharides, alcohol,
foxglove,