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the want of, emasculates eunuchs,
347.
discharged by maniacs in sleep,
304.
wine increases, 453.
SIALOGOGUES, medicines which evacuate
saliva, 392.
SIDE, see under Pleura and Pleurisy.
SINAPISMS, to the legs and head in
lethargy, 391, 392.
SINOPIC EARTH, its uses, 426.
SKINK, antidote from the reptile, 446,
489.
SLEEP, its good and bad effects,
466.
excessive, occasions coldness and
weakness of the nerves, 289.
how to be procured in phrenitis,
382.
SOAP, use of, in elephantiasis, 496.
SOUTHERN WOOD, a mistake for mugwort,
401, 445.
SPHACELUS, or Gangrene of the intestines
in dysentery, 353.
in the bladder from the use of the
catheter, 398.
SPIDERS' WEBS, uses of, in stopping
the excessive discharge of
leeches' bites, 442.
resemblance to, in the alvine
discharges, 355.
SPLEEN, a viscus of loose texture, and
insensible, 322.
its office, 324.
often affected with scirrhus, but
seldom suppurates, 322.
its abscesses, symptoms of, 322,
323.
treatment of, 481, 482.
dropsy from, 337.
symptoms of scirrhus, 322.
treatment of, 481.
swelling of, 323.
diseases of, frequent in marshy
countries, 323.
jaundice in connection with the,
324.
STERNUTATORIES, medicines of this
class, 397, 450, 459.
the best of, castor, 337.
STOMACH, its faculties, 347.
its peculiar affections, 348.
disease of, like the fluor-uteri
(water-brash?), 360.
its symptoms, 348.
its causes, 349; and treatment,
490.
STUDIOUS PERSONS, subject to stomach
affection, 349.
SUCCINGENS, membrane lining the
thorax, 256.
SWEAT, suppression of habitual, induces
mania, 302.
a flow of, proves a seasonable
relief in dropsy, 321.
TABES, or Wasting, from cachexia incurable,
328.
cause of affections of the liver, 322.
TABID, applied to persons emaciated
by ulcers of the liver, 322.
TENESMUS, symptoms of, 354.
TESTICLES, affected in colic pain, 352.
TETANUS, its nature and varieties,
emprosthotonos and opisthotonos,
246.
a disease of the nerves, 270.
from a wound, deadly, 246.
its symptoms, 247-8.
its causes, 246.
its treatment, 400-404.
THERIAC from vipers, 477, 486.
useful for promoting concoction
and the urinary discharge, 470.
THIRST in diabetes, connected with the
state of the stomach, 486.
TONGUE, convulsion or spasm of the,
309.
TONSILS, ulcers of the, their causes, 254.
symptoms of the, 253-5.
treatment of the, 407-8.
TRACHEA, or Aspera Arteria, titillation
of, in affections of the uvula, 253.
ulceration of the, in hæmoptysis,
268.
incision thereof dangerous in quinsey.
See Laryngotomy.
top of, affected in angina, 249.
TRAVELLING abroad, useful in cephalæa,
463.
in epilepsy, 471.
TREPANNING of the skull, in epilepsy,
469.
in cephalæa, 461.
TYMPANIAS, or Tympanites, its nature,
334.
symptoms of, 336.
ULCERS and wounds in the joints and
the bladder, all difficult to heal,
345.
Ægyptian and Syrian, 255.
UVA, a disease of the uvula, 252.
symptoms of, 252-3.
treatment of, 407-8.
