oect. XXIX. 5. 1. ABSORBENTS. G || 



Che flame was blown out, the fire ran along the paper for half at* 

 inch ; which, when the fame paper was ummpregnated, it- 

 would not do ; nor when the fame paper was dipped in urine 

 made before he took the nitre, and dried in the fame manner. 



Paper, dipped in the ferum of the blood and dried in the fame 

 manner as in the urine, did not fcintillate when the flame was 

 blown out, but burnt exactly in the fame maimer as the fame 

 paper dipped in the ferum of blood drawn from another peribn. 



This experiment, which is copied from a letter of Mr. Hughes, 

 as well as the former, fecms to evince the existence of another 

 paffage from the midlines to the bladder, in this difeafe, befides 

 that of the fanimlferous fvftem ; and coincides with the curious 

 .experiment related in fection the third, except that the fmell of 

 ' the afparagus was not here perceived, owing perhaps to the 

 roots having been made ufe of inftead of the heads. 



The riling in the throat of this patient, and the twitchings of 

 his limbs, feem to indicate fome fimilarity between the diabetes 

 and the hyfteric difeafe, befides the great flow of pale urine, 

 which is common to them both. 



Perhaps if the rnefenteric glands were nicely uifpe£ted in the 

 chficclions of thefe patients ; and if the thoracic duct, and the 

 Jarger branches of the lacteals, and if the lymphatics, -which 

 ariie from the bladder, were well examined by injection, or by 

 the knife, the caufe of diabetes might be more certainly under- 

 stood. 



The opium alone, and the opium with the refin, feem much 

 to have ferved this patient, and might probably have effected a 

 cure, if the difeafe had been (lighter, or the medicine had been 

 exhibited, before it had been confirmed by habit during the fev~ 

 en months it had continued. The increafe of the quantity of 

 water on beginning the large dofes of refin was probably owing 

 to his omitting the morning dofes of opium. 



As the urine in chyliferous diabetes abounds fo much with 

 faccharinc matter, as appears from the above cafe of Davis, Dr. 

 Rollo has ingeniouily recommended a diet of animal food alone ; 

 {his, with a diminution of the quantity of fluid, which the pa- 

 tient was previouijy accuftomed to, is laid to have changed the 

 quality of the urine, and to have diminilhed its quantity. See 

 3?art II. Clafs I. 3. 2. 6. of this worfc. 



V, The Phenomena of Qsopjies explained, 



1. Some inebriates have their paroxyfms of inebriety termin- 

 ated by much pale urine, or profufe fweats, or vomiting, or 



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