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Perhaps if the mefenteric glands were nicely in* 

 fpefted in the diffeftions of thefe patients ; and if 

 the thoracic duel, and the larger branches of the 

 lacteals, and if the lymphatics, which arile from the 

 bladder, were well examined by injection, or by 

 the knife, the caufe of diabetes might be more ceiv 

 tainly underllood. 



'I lie opium alone, and the opium with the rofm, 

 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 

 feven months it had continued. The increafe of 

 the quantity of water on beginning the large dofes 

 of rofm was probably owing to his, omitting the 

 jnorning dofes of opium. 



V. The Phenomena of Dropjtes explained,. 



I. SOME inebriates have their paroxyfms of in- 

 ebriety terminated by much pale urine, or profufe 

 fweats, or vomiting, or (tools ; others have their . 

 paroxyfms terminated by ftupor, or fleep, without 

 the above evacuations. 



The former kind of thefe inebriates have been 

 obferved to be more liable to diabetes and dropfy ; 

 and the latter to gout, gravel, and leprofy. Evoe ! 

 attend ye bacchanalians ! dart at this dark train of 

 evils, and, amid yqar immodeft jefts, and idiot 

 laughter, recoiled, 



Quern Deus volt perdere, prius dementat. 



In thofe who are fubjecl: to diabetes and dropfy, 

 the abforbent veflels are naturally more irritable 

 in the latter j and by being frequently diilurb- 



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