Rational Pharmaceutics, Part 1

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How it differs from purging original: "catharsi". Page 184. The material of sweat is either elementary or humoral; the particles of both are noted. Page 185. For copious sweating, three things are required. First, the blood must circulate more rapidly. Second, its structure original: "compages"; referring to the internal arrangement of the blood's components must be loosened. Third, the pores of the skin must be open. Page 186. These conditions are explained individually. Pages 187 and 188. Excessive sweating original: "Ἐφίδρωσις" (Ephidrosis) occurs due to many occasions and evident causes. First, it occurs due to a bad mixture of the blood original: "dyscrasiam"; an imbalance of the bodily fluids or humors, such as after long-lasting fevers. Second, it occurs because the serum is not sufficiently sent away through the kidneys or the lymph ducts. Third, it occurs because the pores are too open. Page 189. The formal reason for sweat, as well as the conjoined and immediate causes original: "causa conjuncta, & procatarctica"; a procatartic cause is a preceding or external trigger for a condition. In the same place. Its evident causes. Page 190. These are, first, excessive agitation of the body and mind. In the same place. Second, the surrounding heat. Page 191. Blocked transpiration. In the same place. Consuming warm things. In the same place. The differences in sweat. Page 192. What kind of diaphoretic medicines remedies that promote sweating there should be. In the same place. The general logic of these is suggested. Page 193. They are somewhat related to cardiac medicines remedies intended to strengthen or stimulate the heart. Page 194. Their substance consists of either the integral or elementary parts of a mixture. Page 195. Those of the first kind are reviewed, and the method of their operation is shown. In the same place. Hydrotics original: "Hydrotica"; medicines that provoke the discharge of watery humors, whose matter consists of elementary parts, are either spirituous. Page 196. Or they are saline; these are likewise in a multiple state. Page 197. The preparation and circumstances needed to properly administer diaphoretics. Page 198.

SECTION V. CHAPTER II.

An account and the formulas of diaphoretics. Page 199. Those which have the integral parts of a mixture as a base. In the same place. They are prescribed...