Alexander states that the proper remedies for vomiting occasioned by a redundance of bile are diluents and refrigerants. He recommends internally ptisan, lettuces with a small quantity of vinegar, &c. For drink, he particularly approves of cold water, but forbids much to be given at a time. When the strength fails, he permits a small proportion of hydromel, wine, or the like, to be added to the water. In certain cases, when the patient is troubled with insomnolency, he directs us to add the heads of poppies to his drink. He also recommends external applications possessed of tonic, cooling, and repellent properties. (vii, 17.) Serapion recommends us not to interfere with a critical vomiting. When it is continued, he directs us to give clysters and gentle purgatives at first, and afterwards vegetable acids and astringents. When these remedies fail, he directs us, if the strength be good, to bleed from the arm. He also makes mention of external applications, possessed of astringent and refrigerant properties. (iii, 15.) Haly Abbas, in like manner, cautions against stopping a critical vomiting. (iii, 24.) Alsaharavius prescribes draughts of tepid water at first, and afterwards the infusion of wormwood or of aloes. He also recommends external applications of a strengthening nature. (Pract. xvi, 20.) Avicenna’s plan of treatment appears to have been copied from our author’s. (iv, i, 2.) Rhases recommends acid drinks, such as the decoction of pomegranates and the like. (Cont. xi.) According to Prosper Alpinus, the treatment of the Methodists consisted in administering sub-acid fruits, the juice of wormwood or of mint in wine, and in applying externally tonic epithemes, containing sumach, galls, mastich, and the like. (Med. Meth. xii, 11.) SECT. LVII.—ON HICCOUGH.