£54 RETROGRADE Sect. XXIX. 5. u 



ilools ; others have their paroxyfms terminated by ftupor, or 

 fleep, without the above evacuations. 



The former kind of the fe inebriates have been obfcrved to be 

 inore liable to diabetes and dropfy •, and the latter to gout, 

 gravel, and leprofy. Evoe ! attend ye bacchanalians ! ftirt at 

 this dark train of evils, and amid yourimmodelc jells, and idiot 

 laughter, recollect, 



Quern 'Dens vult perdere, priu: detnent'at. 



In rhofc who are fubject to diabetes and dropfy, the absorbent 

 veficls are naturally more irritable than in the Litter ; and by be- 

 ing frequently difturbed or inverted by violent ftimulus, and bj 

 their too great fympathy with each other, they become at length 

 either entirely paralytic, or are only fufceptible of motion from 

 ?'->€. ftimulus of very acrid materials 5 as every part of the body, 

 after having been ufed to great irritations, becomes lefs affected 

 fey fin .-.Her ones. Thus we cannot diftinguifh objects in the 

 night, for fome time after we come out of a ftrong light, though 

 the iris is prefently diluted ; and the air of a fummer evening 

 appears cold, after we have been expofed to the heat of the day. 



There are no cells in the body, where dropfy may not be pro- 

 duced, if the lymphatics ceafe to abforb that mucilaginous fluid, 

 which is perpetually depoiited in them, for thepurpofe of lubri- 

 cating their furfaces. 



If the lymphatic branch, which opens into the cellular mem- 

 brane, either does its office imperfectly, or not all ; thefe cells 

 become replete with a mucilaginous fluid, which, after it has 

 ftagnated feme time in the cells, will coagulate over the fire ; 

 and is erroneoylly called water. Wherever the feat of this dif- 

 cafc is, (unlefs in the lungs or other pendent vifcera) the mucilag- 

 inous liquid above mentioned will fubfide to the molt depend- 

 in 2 parts of the body, as the feet and legs, when thofe are lower 

 than the head and trunk 5 for all thefe cells have communica- 

 - ach other. 



When the cellular abferbents are become infenfible to their 

 ufual irritations, it in oil frequently happens, but not always, 

 that the cutaneous branch of abforbents, which is ftrictly aiToci- 

 atcd wirh them, f after 3 the like inability. And then, as no wa- 

 r is abforbed from the atmosphere, the urine is not only lefc 

 diluted at the time of its fecretion, and confequently in lefs 

 lantity and higher coloured : but great thirft is at the fame 

 time induced, for as no water is abforbed from the atmofphcre 



• -ire the chyle and blood, the lacleals and other abforbent 



• s, which ha\L not loft their powers, are excited into more 



• • or m re . it action, to (iipply this deficiency \ 



whence 



