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70] ANO while In the human body. In this manner, pains arising from acri- monious humours are relieved by- drinking bland, diluent, and sac- charine liquors ; from intestinal worms (though resisting every ve- mifuge),bv lemedies wbichdestroy tibu before ility are carried off' L be feces 5 from a pleurisy, by such means as resolve the stagnant fluids, and promote their circulation through the constricted capillary vessels 3 from stones in die bladder, if they be top large for expulsion, by the use of lime-water, v Inch tends to blunt their edges,&c. r l illustrations, however, might be accompanied with a variety ofpttac- tica! hints and precaution did not intei d to reserve such ob- servations, till we have occasion to treat of the different acute and pain- ful diseases, under their respective heads. III. The last class of anodynes comprehends all those which, by exciting impressions and v mentations of a different kind, either counteract or subdue the pain. These are generally resorted to, when neither the affected organs can be locally relieved, the mate- rial cause removed, nor the p. stupihed by narcotics. Hence physicians are frequently obliged to employ such expedients as - suppress the partial affection, by exciting feelings of a different na- ture, and perhaps to a more. i. degree than those occasioned by the original complaint. These re- medies, however, require equal ingenuity and precaution. Thus, for instance, violent head-ach, tooth- ach, pains of the breait, &c. may be alleviated by blisters, or cata- plasms made of onions, garlic, mustard-seed with vinegar, horse* radish, and similar stimulants ; ANO rheumatic and gouty affections, by early friction with flannel, which, for many reasons, is preferable o a flesh-brush. All these applications^ nevertheless, ought to be maturely considered, previous to their use, with respect to the place, strength, and duration, c. ulus. To this class may also be referred, diversions of the nnnd ; inclina- tions and passions a/' ficiaUy ex- cit< '., in order to direct the at n- tion of the patient to a different object: such expedients are fre- quently of ex cell' .-n: service, espe- cially in chronic disease)), and to inveterate iv pochondnaes. In a Bimilar manner, terror and a: times instautane< the painful sensations of gouty and rheumatic patients. 1 .sures of conversation, a eouhtry- life, theatres, music, dancing, hunting, and similar amusements* are often more effectual anedyi m tun : the f( il y cozen and delude the mind ; the avatethe complaint. this concise view 4 of the subjed , vi e shall add a few gene -'dons rel. to the manner of determining, her, and when a patient may with sal? ty resort to ; be- annot en- ters, v, hidb it would becor y to repeat, when ag of those substances then*: If a person be suddenly seized violent pains, the cause or source of which cannot be clearly be of the first causa ■ inquire, whether the patient be at the same time bo ieluile heat, accompa- . by an unusual determination of