Excerpt from The Cyclopaedia of Practical Medicine, Vol. 4 of 4: Comprising Treatises on the Nature and Treatment of Diseases, Materia Medica and Therapeutics, Medical Jurisprudence, Etc., Etc.; Refrigerants-Yaws Upon the whole, it is evident that refrigerants operate to a certain extent as sedatives; diminish ing the force and rapidity of the pulse, depressing morbid temperature, and calming, generally, the disturbance which always attends acute diseases. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.