SECT. XXIX. 4. RETROGRADE ABSORBENTS. 369 



eyes, fpirit of hartfhorn, and eat ten or fifteen 

 cyders thrice a day. Dr. Home, having read my 

 thefis, bled him, and found that neither the frefh 

 blood nor the ferum tafted fweet. His body was 

 opened this morning every vifcus appeared in a 

 found and natural ftate, except that the left kidney 

 had a very fmall pelvis, and that there was a con- 

 fiderable enlargement of moft of the mefenteric lym- 

 phatic glands. I intend to infert this in my thefis, 

 a it coincides with the experiment, where fome 

 afparagus was eaten at the beginning of intoxica- 

 tion, and its fmell perceived in the urine, though 

 not in the blood. ' 



The following cafe of chyliferous diabetes is ex- 

 tracted from fome letters of Mr. Hughes, to whofe 

 unremitted care the infirmary at Stafford for many 

 years was much indebted. Dated October 10, 



1778- 



Richard Davis, aged 33, a whitefmith by trade, 

 had drank hard by intervals ; was much tro'ubled 

 with fwead-ng of his hands, which incommoded him 

 in his occupation, but which ceafed on his fre- 

 quently dipping them in lime. About feven months 

 ago he began to make large quantities of water ; 

 his legs are cedematous, his belly tenfe, and he 

 complains of a rifing in his throat, like the globus 

 hyftericus : he eats twice as much as other people, 

 drinks about fourteen pints of fmall beer a day, 

 befides a pint of ale, fome milk-porridge, and 3. 

 baion of broth, and he makes about eighteen pint 

 of water a-day. 



He tried alum, dragon's .blood, flee!, blue vitriol, 

 and cantharides in large quantities, and duly re- 

 peated, under the care of Dr. Underbill, but with- 

 out any effect ; except that on the day after he 

 omitted the cantharides, he made but twelve pints 

 of water, but on the next day this good effect ceafed 



