1 4Q DISEASES CLASS 1. 3. 2. 4 



the stomach by the retrograde motions of the lymphatics orlaeteals 

 which open into it. See Class I. 2. 4, 3. and I. 2. 4. 4. 

 M. M. Subacid liquids. Wine. Opium. A blister. 



4. Diarrhoea lymphatica. Lymphatic diarrhoea. A quantity 

 of mucus and lymph are poured into the intestines by the in- 

 verted motions of the intestinal lymphatics. The feces are less- 

 fetid and more liquid; and it sometimes portends the commence- 

 ment of a diabetes, or dropsy, or their temporary relief. This 

 lymphatic diarrhoea sometimes becomes chronical, in which the 

 atmospheric moisture, absorbed by the cutaneous and pulmonary 

 lymphatics, is poured into the intestines by the retrograde mo- 

 tions of the lacteals. See Section XXIX. 4. 6. where some 

 cases of this kind are related. 



5. Diarrhoea chylifera, cceliaca. Chyliferous diarrhoea. The 

 chyle drunk up by the lacteals of the upper intestines is poured 

 into the lower ones by the retrograde motions of their lacteals, 

 and appears in the dejections. This circumstance occurs at the 

 beginning of diarrhoea crapulosa, where the paiient has taken 

 and digested more aliment than the system can conveniently re- 

 ceive, and thus eliminates a part of it; as appears when there is 

 curdled chyle in some of the dejeciions. See Sect. XXIX, 4. 7. 

 It differs from the lymphatic diarrhoea, as the chyliferous diabe- 

 tes differs from the aqueous and mucaginous diabetes. 



6. Diabetes. By the retrograde motions of the urinary lym- 

 phatics, an immense quantity of fluid is poured into the bladder. 

 It is either termed chyliferous, or aqueous, or mucaginous, from 

 the nature of the fluid brought into the bladder; and is either a 

 temporary disease, as in hysteric women, in the beginning of in- 

 toxication, in worm cases, or in those exposed to cold damp air, 

 or to great fear or anxiety, or in the commencement of some drop- 

 sies; or it becomes chronical. 



When the urinary lymphatics invert their motions, and pour 

 their refluent contents into the bladder, some other branch of the 

 absorbent system acts with greater energy to supply this fluid. 

 If it is the intestinal branch, the chyliferous diabetes is produced: 

 if it is the cutaneous or pulmonary branch, the aqueous diabetes 

 is produced: and if the cellular or cystic branches, the mucagi- 

 nous diabetes. In the two last the urine is pellucid, and contains 

 no sugar. 



In dropsies the fluid is sometimes absorbed, and poured into 

 the bladder by the retrograde motions of the urinary lymphatics, 

 as during the exhibition of digitalis. In the beginning of the 

 dropsies of infirm gouty patients, I have frequently observed, 

 that they make a large quantity of water for one night, which 

 relieves them for several days. In these cases the patient previ- 



