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Tartarized Antimony.
d. By exciting serous discharges from the bowels.
Saline Purgatives.
CL: III.—MEDICINES WHICH OPERATE, MECHANICALLY, IN PROMOTING THE REJECTION OF ACCUMULATED MUCUS.
a. By stimulating the muscles of Respiration.
Ammonia.
b. By exciting vomiting, and thereby compressing the thoracic viscera.
Emetics.
I. Of Medicines which increase Pulmonary Exhalation.
a. By removing constriction of the Pulmonary Exhalant vessels.
There can be no doubt but that, in certain states of disease, the exhalants of the lungs, like those of the skin, are affected by a spasmodic constriction, in consequence of which the usual quantity of fluid for the lubrication of these parts, is not effused, whence a train of morbid phenomena arise; this appears to happen in Pneumonia, Asthma, and certain other diseases of the pulmonary organs. In order to remove such a constriction, remedies of the Antispasmodic class may be exhibited with advantage; nauseating doses of Tartarized Antimony, or of Ipecacuanha, are likewise calculated to fulfil the same indication, by an operation analogous to that by which Diaphoresis is produced. If the term might be allowed we should call such remedies Pulmonary Diaphoretics. It is in this way that Venesection, Blisters, and other anti-phlogistic remedies, may in certain states of the lungs restore a healthy excretion from these vessels.