Rational Pharmaceutics, Part 1

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and etiology original: "Aetiologia"; the study of causes. Page 113. Resin of Jalap a purgative root from Mexico, and the reason for the process. In the same place. Resin of Scammony a harsh purgative resin derived from a species of bindweed. Extract of black Hellebore. Page 114. The reasons for these. In the same place and page 115.

SECTION III. CHAPTER III.

The medicinal reason for hypercatharsis original: "Hypercatharseos"; excessive or dangerous purging of the bowels. Page 116. Its precaution and cure. Page 117. How symptomatic diarrhea diarrhea occurring as a symptom of another disease is to be treated. Page 118. The London Dysentery. In the same place. Its two types: watery and bloody. Page 119. Description of the former. In the same place. With what medicines its cure is achieved. Page 120. Medical formulas. In the same place. The etiology of the disease. Page 121. It arises primarily from a fault in the nervous fluid original: "liquoris nervei"; Willis’s term for the fluid he believed traveled through the nerves to facilitate motion and sensation. Page 122. Its remote causes; and why it rages in autumn. In the same place. Why it is endemic in this city London. Page 123. Its predisposing causes original Greek: "proēgoumenai"; the internal conditions or bodily states that make a person vulnerable to a specific disease. In the same place. Evident causes. Page 125. Bloody dysentery is described. Page 125. To this, an irregular fever in other places is contemporary. In the same place. The symptoms and manner of the disease. Page 126. Method of healing. In the same place. Formulas for remedies. Pages 127, 128. Etiology of the disease. In the same place. Three things contribute to this: first, a dyscrasia an imbalance or "bad mixture" of bodily fluids of the blood arising from the intemperance of the season. Second, the overly constricted structure of that same effervescing blood and the confusion of its particles. Third, the clogging of the pores. Page 129. Differences of this disease. Page 130. Two curative indications regarding the blood, and just as many regarding the internal organs. Page 131. An example of a cure, with medicinal formulas and method. Pages 132 and 133. Another example. Page 134.