CONSTRUCTOR, an appellation given to several muscles,
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muscles,
(A) The decrease in the violence of inflammatory diseases may perhaps in part be ascribed to the present improved method of treating them. Moderate evacuations, cool air, acescent diet, and the liberal use of saline and antimonial medicines, are better adapted to check the progress of fevers, than copious bleedings, stimulating purgatives, and profuse sweats excited by theriaca and mithridate.
Contractor muscles, on account of their constricting or closing some of the orifices of the body.