Zoonomia; Or, the Laws of Organic Life, Vol. II Papyras Classics

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Chapter 19

With increased Actions of the Absorbent System

Ordo I.

Increased Irritation.

Genus III.

These are not attended with so great increase of heat as in the former genus, because the fluids probably undergo less chemical change in the glands of the absorbent system; nor are the glands of the absorbent vessels so numerous or so extensive as those of the secerning ones. Yet that some heat is produced by the increased action of the absorbents appears from the greater general warmth of the skin and extremities of feeble patients after the exhibition of the peruvian bark, and other medicines of the article Sorbentia.