nd another from
the retrograde motions of the capillaries and fine extremities of the
arteries. See Class II. 3. 1. 1.

M. M. A blister, nutrientia, incitantia, exercise, oxygene gas.

3. _Pus parcius._ Diminished pus. Dryness of ulcers. In the cold fits of
fever all the secretions are diminished, whether natural or artificial, as
their quantity depends on the actions of the glands or capillaries, which
then share in the universal inaction of the system. Hence the dryness of
issues and blisters in great debility, and before the approach of death, is
owing to deficient secretion, and not to increased absorption.

M. M. Opium, wine in very small quantities, Peruvian bark.

4. _Mucus parcior._ Diminished mucus. Dryness of the mouth and nostrils.
This also occurs in the cold fits of intermittents. In these cases I have
also found the tongue cold to the touch of the finger, and the breath to
the back of one's hand, when opposed to it, which are very inauspicious
symptoms, and generally fatal. In fevers with inirritability it is
generally esteemed a good symptom, when the nostrils and tongue become
moist after having been previously dry; as it shews an increased action of
the mucous glands of those membranes, which were before torpid. And the
contrary to this is the facies Hippocratica, or countenance so well
described by Hippocrates, which is pale, cold, and shrunk; all which are
owing to the inactivity of the secerning vessels, the paleness from there
being less red blood passing through the capillaries, the coldness of the
skin from there being less secretion of perspirable matter, and the shrunk
appearance from there being less mucus secreted into the cells of the
cellular membrane. See Class IV. 2. 4. 11.

M. M. Blisters. Incitantia.

5. _Urina parcior pallida._ Paucity of pale urine, as in the cold fits of
intermittents; it appears in some nervous fevers throughout the whole
disease, and seems to proceed from a palsy of the kidnies; which probably
was the cause of the fever, as the fever sometimes ceases, when that
symptom is removed: hence the straw-coloured urine in this fever is so far
salutary, as it shews the unimpaired action of the kidnies.

M. M. Balsams, essential oil, asparagus, rhubarb, a blister. Cantharides
internally.

6. _Torpor hepaticus._ Paucity of bile from a partial inaction of the
liver; hence the bombycinous colour of the skin, grey stools, urine not
yellow, indigestion, debility, followed