SECT. XXIX. 6. RETROGRADE ABSORBENTS. 38,5 



does not a pain or weak nets in both arms diilin- 

 guith the dropfy of the thorax ? 



8. Do not -the drop Iks of the thorax and pericar- 

 dium frequently ex: ft together, and thus and lo 

 the uncertainty and 'fatality of the difeafe ? 



9. Might not the foxglove be ferviceable in hy- 

 drocephalus interims, in hydrocele, and in white 

 f well ings of the joints ? 



, VI. Of cold Sweats. 



THERE have been hiftories given of chronical im- 

 moderate fweatings, which bear fome analogy to 

 the diabetes. Dr. Willis mentions a lady then 

 living, whofe fweats were for many years fo pro- 

 fufe, that all her bed-clothes were not only moift- 

 ened, but deluged with them every night j and that 

 many ounces, and fometimes -pints, of this fweat, 

 were received in veflels properly placed, as it trick- 

 led down her body. He adds, that (he had great 

 thirft, had taken many medicines, and fubmitted to 

 various rules of life, and changes of climate, but 

 fiili continued jto have thefe immoderate fweats. 

 Pharmac. ration, de fudore anglico. 



Dr. Willis has alfp obferved, that the fudor an- 

 glicanus which appeared in England, in 1483, and 

 continued till 1551, was in fome refpecls fimilar 

 to the diabetes ; and as Dr. Gaius, who faw this dif- 

 eafe, mentions the vifcidity, as well as the quantity 

 of thefe fweats, and adds, that the extremities were 

 often cold, when the internal parts wer burnt up 

 with heat and third, with great and fpeedy emaci- 

 ation and debility : there is great rcafon to believe, 

 i hat the fluids were abforbed from the cells of the 

 body by the cellular and cyftic branches of the lym- 

 phatics, and poured on the fkin by the retrograde 

 motions of the cutaneous ones. 



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