II. Inverted motions of the stomach are reclaimed by opium, alcohol,
blisters, crude mercury, sinapisms, camphor and opium externally, clysters
with asafoetida.

III. Inverted motions of the intestinal lymphatics are reclaimed by
mucilaginous diluents, and by intestinal sorbentia, as rhubarb, logwood,
calcined hartshorn, Armenian bole; and lastly by incitantia, as opium.

IV. Inverted motions of the urinary lymphatics are reclaimed by
cantharides, turpentine, rosin, the sorbentia, and opium, with calcareous
earth, and earth of alum, by oil externally, warm-bath.

V. Inverted motions of the intestinal canal are reclaimed by calomel, aloe,
crude mercury, blisters, warm-bath, clysters with asafoetida, clysters of
iced water? or of spring water further cooled by salt dissolved in water
contained in an exterior vessel? Where there exists an introsusception of
the bowel in children, could the patient be held up for a time by the feet
with his head downwards, or be laid with his body on an inclined plane with
his head downwards, and crude mercury be injected as a clyster to the
quantity of two or three pounds?

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ART. VII.

TORPENTIA.

I. Those things, which diminish the exertion of the irritative motions, are
termed torpentia.

1. As mucus, mucilage, water, bland oils, and whatever possesses less
stimulus than our usual food. Diminution of heat, light, sound, oxygen, and
of all other stimuli; venesection, nausea, and anxiety.

2. Those things which chemically destroy acrimony, as calcareous earth,
soap, tin, alcalies, in cardialgia; or which prevent chemical acrimony, as
acid of vitriol in cardialgia, which prevents the fermentation of the
aliment in the stomach, and its consequent acidity. Secondly, which destroy
worms, as calomel, iron filings or rust of iron, in the round worms; or
amalgama of quicksilver and tin, or tin in very large doses, in the
tape-worms. Will ether in clysters destroy ascarides? Thirdly, by
chemically destroying extraneous bodies, as caustic alcali, lime, mild
alcali in the stone. Fourthly, those things which lubricate the vessels,
along which extraneous bodies slide, as oil in the stone in the urethra,
and to expedite the expectoration of hardened mucus; or which lessen the
friction of the contents in the intestinal canal in dysentery or aphtha, as
calcined hartshorn, clay, Armenian bole, chalk, bone-ashes. Fifthly, such
things as soften or extend t