in medicine, those remedies which produce an immediate sense of cold, being such as have their parts in less motion than those of the organs of feeling; as fruits and all acid liquors. Or they are such as, by a particular vivacity or grossness of parts, give the animal fluids a greater confluence than they had before, and consequently retard their motion, having less of that intestine force on which their heat depends: of this sort are cucumbers and all substances producing vivacity.