...been highly praised for the acute hydrocephalus, calomel is the most efficacious ; in the turgescence, and at the beginning of the inflammatory stage, I...excites, as it were, an abdominal or intestinal ptyalism, loosens the coagulating power of the lymph, and lessens, by the action which it excites in the alimentary...

...hydroccphalus, calomel," be says, " is the most efficacious. In the turgescence and atthe commencement of the inflammatory stage I may almost call it a specific ; it excites, as it were, an intestinal ptyalism, and lessens, by the action which it excites in the alimeiiury canal, the orgasm...