Note 548 — PHARMACOLOGIA. (continued 5)

Dr. Pemberton makes the interesting statement in relation to the operation of Kino upon the system, that unless Diarrhœa be actually present, “it appears to have no tendency to confine the bowels. In this drug, therefore,” he adds, “you have a medicine which exerts its powers to restrain the discharges of the glands when they are secreting too much, without exerting any such powers over them when they are acting naturally.” Practical Treatise on the various diseases of the abdominal viscera, p. 112, Am. Ed.

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