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fcovered with fvveat ? why is not the {kin warm ? Add 

 to this, that the fwears above-mentioned were clam- 

 my or glutinous, which the condenfed perfpirable 

 matter is not ; whence it would feem to have been 

 a different fluid from that of common perfpira- 

 tion. 



Dr. Dobfon, of Liverpool, has given a very inge- 

 nious explanation of the acid fweats, which heob- 

 ferved in a diabetic patient he thinks part of the 

 chyle is fecreted by the (kin, and afterwards under- 

 goes an acetous fermentation. Can the chyle get 

 thither, but by an inverted motion of the cutane- 

 ous lymphatics ? in the fame manner as it is carried 

 .to the bladder, by the inverted motions of the uri- 

 nary lymphatics. Medic. Obfervat. and Enq. Lon- 

 don, vol. v. 



Are not the cold fweats in fome fainting fits, and 

 in dying people, owing to an inverted motion of 

 the cutaneous lymphatics ? for in thefe there can be 

 no increafed arterial or glandular action. 



Is the difficulty of breathing, aiifing from ana- 

 farca of the lungs, relieved by fweats from the head 

 and neck; whilft that difficulty of breathing, which 

 arifes from a dropfy of the thorax, or pericardium, 

 is never attended with thefe fweats of the head ? 

 and thence can thefe difeafes be diftinguifhed from 

 each other ? Do the periodic returns of nocturnal 

 afthma rife from a temporary dropfy of the lungs, 

 collected during their more torpid Hate in found 

 fleep, and then re-abforbed by the vehement efforts 

 of the difordered organs of refpiranon, and carried 

 off by the copious fweats about the head and neck? 



More extensive and accurate diffecYions of th< 

 lymphatic fyflem are wanting to enable us to unravt 

 fchefe knots of fcknce. 



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