172 DISEASES Class II. i.z.6. 



fide of a fire, or window, to which they will be liable always to 

 bend themfelves. 



When matter is produced during peripneumony or pleurify 

 in one fide of the chelt, fo long as it is a concealed vomica, the 

 fever continues, if the difeaie be great, for many weeks, and even. 

 months ; and requires occasional venefe&ion, till the patient 

 finks under the inflammatory or fenfitive irritated fever. But if 

 air be admitted, by a part of the abfeefs opening itfelf a way in- 

 to the air-veflels of the lungs, a hectic fever, with colliquative 

 fweats or diarrhoea, fupervenes, and frequently deflroys the pa- 

 tient j or the abfeefs heals, the lungs adhering to the pleura* 

 See pleurodyne rheumatica. Clafs IV. I. 2. 16. 



M. M. The lancet muft be ufed copioufly, and repeated as 

 often as the pain and difficult refpiration increafe. A blilter on 

 the pained part. Antimonial preparations. Diluents. Cool 

 air. Do neutral falts increafe the tendency to cough ? PedU 

 luvium or lemicupium frequently repeated. 



<$. Diaphragmitis. Inliammation of the diaphragm. Pain 

 round the lower ribs as if girt with a cord. Difficult refpira- 

 tion performed only by elevating the ribs and in an erecl: pof- 

 ture. The corners of the mouth frequently retracled into a dif~ 

 agreeable fmile, called rifus Sardonicus. 



Thofe animals, which are furnifhed with clavicles, or collar^ 

 bones, not only ufe their foremofl feet as hands, as men, mont 

 keys, cats, mice, fquirrels, &c. but elevate their ribs in refpira- 

 tion as well as deprefs the diaphragm for the purpofe of enlarg- 

 ing the cavity of the chefl. Hence an inflammation of the dia- 

 phragm is fudden death to thofe animals, as horfes and dogs, 

 which can only breathe by depreffing the diaphragm ; and is I 

 fuppofe the caufe of the fudden death of horfes that are over- 

 worked ; whereas, in the human animal, when the diaphragm 

 is inflamed, fp as to render its motions impoffible from the pain 

 they occafion, refpiration can be carried on, though in a lefs per- 

 fect manner, by the intercoftal mufcles in the elevation of the 

 ribs. In pleurify the ribs are kept rnotionlefs, and the refpira- 

 tion is performed by the diaphragm, as may be readily feen on 

 infpetting the naked chefl, and which is generally a bad fymp- 

 torn ; in the diaphragmitis the ribs are alternately elevated, and 

 deprefTed, but the lower part of the belly is not feen to move. 



M. M. As in pleurify and peripneumony. When the pa- 

 tient becomes deliriofts, and fmiles difagreeably by intervals, and 

 is become fo weak, that evacuations by the lancet could be ufed 

 no further, and I have almoll defpaired of my patient, I have 

 found in two or three inttances, that about five or fix drops of 

 tinc~f.. thebaic, given an hour before the evening exacerbation, 



have 



