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[ONE THAT GOES WRONG MAY MISLEAD A WHOLE NEIGHBOURHOOD.] 887. Expectorants Expectorants are medicines which increase expectoration, or the discharge from the bronchial tubes, such as ipecacuanha, squills, opium, ammoniacum. 888. Febrifuges Febrifuges are remedies used in fevers, such as all the antimonials, bark, quinine, mineral acids, arsenic. 889. Hydragogues Hydragogues are medicines which have the effect of removing the fluid of dropsy, by producing watery evacuations, such as gamboge, calomel, &c. 890. Hypnotics Hypnotics are medicines that relieve pain by procuring sleep, such as hops, henbane, morphia, poppy. 891. Laxatives Laxatives are medicines which cause the bowels to act rather more than natural, such as manna, &c. 892. Narcotics Narcotics are medicines which cause sleep or stupor, and allay pain, such as opium, &c. 893. Nutrients Nutrients are remedies that nourish the body, such as sugar, sago, &c. 894. Paregorics Paregorics are medicines which actually assuage pain, such as compound tincture of camphor, henbane, hops, opium. 895. Prophylactics Prophylactics are remedies employed to prevent the attack of any particular disease, such as quinine, &c. 896. Purgatives Purgatives are medicines that promote the evacuation of the bowels, such as senna, aloes, jalap, salts. 897. Refrigerants Refrigerants are medicines which suppress an unusual heat of the body, such as wood-sorrel, tamarind, &c. 898. Rubefacients Rubefacients are medicaments which cause redness of the skin, such as mustard, &c. 899. Sedatives Sedatives are medicines which depress the nervous energy, and destroy sensation, so as to compose, such as foxglove. (See Paregorics.) 900. Sialogogues