Add to this, that the sweats above mentioned were clammy or glutinous, which the condensed perspirable matter is not; whence it would seem to have been a different fluid from that of common perspiration.
Those, whose mouths are dispersed on the external skin, imbibe a great quantity of water from the atmosphere, and a part of the perspirable matter, which does not evaporate, and are termed cutaneous absorbents.
And others on the external body, as those which secrete the tears, and perspirable matter.
Secondly, the skin of the fetus is covered with a whitish crust or pellicle, which would seem to preclude any idea of the liquor amnii being produced by any exsudation of perspirable matter.
From the want of a long convolution of vessels some have doubted, whether these capillaries should be considered as glands, and have been led to conclude, that the perspirable matter rather exuded than was secreted.
The food which is most vaporous and perspirable is the most easily digested.
By using thinner and more porous bed-clothes, which will suffer the perspirable matter more easily to pass through them, we are less incommoded, such being longer tolerable.
What physicians call the perspirable matter, is that vapour which passes off from our bodies, from the lungs, and through the pores of the skin.
This, repeated twenty times, will so clear them of the perspirable matter they have imbibed, as to permit your sleeping well for some time afterwards.
This accumulating fluid, or perspirable matter, is at first colourless; but being exposed to violent heat, or dried, becomes brown.
Defn: To pass, as perspirable matter does, through the pores or interstices of textures; as, liquor may transude through leather or wood.
The food which is most vaporous and perspirable is the most easily digested.
Whence the secretion of perspirable matter is not decreased, but its appearance on the skin is prevented by its more facile absorption.
We may from hence understand, that the increase of this secretion of perspirable matter by artificial means, must be followed by debility and emaciation.
Externally a paste made with double the quantity of yeast is a good poultice; and booterkins made with oiled silk, as they confine the perspirable matter, keep the part moist and supple, and thence relieve the pain like poultices.
May there not be in negroes a quicker evaporation of the perspirable matter from their skins and lungs, which, by cooling them more, enables them to bear the sun's heat better than whites do?
And I imagine it a cause of the same kind that renders the air in close rooms, where the perspirable matter is breathed over and over again by a number of assembled, people so hurtful to health.
These then indicate such Medicines as cleanse the Primæ Viæ from the Contagious Particles, and other Crudities lodged in them, blunt the Acrimony of the Saline Particles, and promote the Regular Expulsion of the Perspirable Matter.
Whence proceeds a large Evacuation of the perspirable Matter.
In the warm mornings of July and August, the air is loaded with moisture and impurities, and the perspirable matter is not removed from the system as it is when the air is pure and dry.
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