Heads of lectures on the institutions of medicine / by Andrew Duncan.

  • Andrew Duncan
Date:
1809
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    ture of the part more firm and compact— they alter the matter discharged to a more thick consistence and whiter colour—they remove a strong fetid smell arising from the part before their use. Different orders of antiseptics—Atitisep- tica tanica—A. refrigerantia—A. stimulantia —A. antispasmodica. Indications in the cure of diseases which antiseptics are fitted to fulfil. 1. From their influence as preventing putrefaction, To supply an antiseptic power when morbidly deficient in the system. To obviate the assimilating quality of any putrescent ferment when introdu- ced into the body. 2. From their influence as obviating pu- trefaction when already begun, To correct a putrid diathesis in the fluids of the living animal body, I To