CONSTRICTOR, an appellation given to several
4 F 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 therinca and mithridate.
Construc-
tion.
Consualia.
muscles, on account of their constringing or closing some of the orifices of the body.