Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 June 1894 — Medicines. [ARTICLE]

Medicines.

Nutrients are remedies that nourish the body, as sago, etc. Diaphoretics produce perspiration, such a 3 tartrate of antimony, etc. Narcotics are medicines which cause sleep or stupor, and allay pain, such as opium, etc. Diuretics act upon the kidneys and bladder, and increase their action,such as nitre, squills, etc. Sialagogues are medicines which promote the flow of saliva or spittle, such as salt, calomel, etc. Corroborants are medicines and food which increase the strength, such as iron, gentian, sago, etc. | Paregorics are medicines that actually assuage pain, such as compound tincture of camphor, etc. Laxatives are which cause the bowels to act rather mere than natural, such as manna, etc. Refrigerants are medicines which suppress the unusual heat of the body, such as wood-scrrel, tamarind, etc. Carminatives are medicines which allay pain in the stomach and bowels, and expel flatulenoe, as anise-seed water.