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by an eariliquake ; lo miles S.E. of MefTwfl. N. lat. 3'8-' 6'. 

 £. long. r6°53'. 



REGGIOLO, a town of Italy, in the department ot 

 the Mincio ; fix miles E. of Guallalla. 



R.EGHABILLE, a town of Africa, in the country of 

 Wangara, fituated on a lake. N. lat. 12^47'. E. long. 

 18° 19'. 



REGIA A(juA. See Aqua. 



Regia Flu. See Via. 



Regia Villa. See Vflla. 



REGICIDE, RiiGiciDA, a iing-iiller. The term is 

 alfo ufed for the aft itfeif of murdering a king ; of rex, king, 

 and ciido, I Jlay. 



Regicide is chiefly ufed with us in fpeaking of the perfons 

 concerned in the trial, condemnation, and execution, of king 

 Charles I. 



REGIFUGE, Regifugium, a feaft held m ancient 

 Rome on the fixtli of the calends of March, i. e. on our 

 24th of February, in memory of the expulfion of their 

 kings, particularly of Tarquin's flying out of Rome on that 

 day. Some will have the feaft to bear this name from the 

 rexfacrorum, ting of the facrifices, flying out of the comitia, 

 or place of afft- mbly, as foon as the facrifice was over, in 

 imitation of the flight of Tarquin the Proud. 



Some critics and antiquaries will have Regifugium the 

 fame with Fugalia ; others hold them to be different. 



REGIMEN, in Medicine, from rego, I rule or govern, 

 a rule or courfe of living, with regard to eating, drinking, 

 clothing, and the like, accommodated to fome dileafe, or 

 particular courfe of medicine which the patient is under, 

 or intended as a prevention of fome threatening malady. 



In many difeafes, efpecially thofe of the acute or febrile 

 clai's, the regimen is often of equal, and fometimes of more im- 

 portance than medicine : and there can be no doubt that the 

 humoral phyficians, by the introduftioH of a hot regimen in 

 the treatment of febrile complaints, contributed to render 

 thefe difeafes more fevere and fatal ; and that the fubilitu^ 

 tion of a cool regimen has of late years very materially 

 diminifhed the danger and mortality of thefe maladies. This 

 change in medical practice has been, in fatt, but a return 

 to nature, and to Hippocrates, who taught this fimple, but 

 clear and rational principle, " contrari.icontrariis medentur;" 

 remedies fliould be of an oppofite nature to difeafes : that 

 is to fay, if the body is morbidly hot, cold is the remedy ; if 

 it is cold, the application of heat is neceffary ; if there is 

 over-diftention, inflammation, or plethora, evacuation muft 

 be reforted to : if depletion, we muft fupply nourifliment : 

 if there is thirft, the remedy is the free uleof drink, and fo 

 forth. The clear inftinfts of nature (where they can be 

 diftinguifhed) are commonly infallible guides, as to the re- 

 gimen to be purfued : but let not morbid habits and preju- 

 dices be miftaken for them. Thus in all fevers, fniall-pox, 

 meafles, fcarlet-fever, catarrh, typhus, and the plague 

 itfeif, the natural bias is for frefti air, coolnefs, light bed- 

 clothes, clean linen, cold drink, light and merely liquid 

 nourifliment, in fmall quantities, or abfolute abftinence, 

 quietnefs of mind and body, relief from noife, ftrong light, 

 and every fpecies of excitement ; and this is precifely the 

 regimen, which experience has proved to be moll beneficial 

 in fuch difeafes. Under the influence of fuch a regimen, 

 where proper medicines are alfo employed, every fymptom 

 is rendered comparatively mild ; the diftrefs of the fick is 

 diminiflied, by the foothing of every morbid fenfation ; and 

 the derangements, which would otherwife enfue, or be ag- 

 gravated, in the more vital organs, as in the brain, lungs, 

 and alimentary canal, are frequently altogether pre- 

 vented. 



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It is fuflicient to contrail the eiTeds of the hot regirnei,, 

 m lebrile difeafes, to be convinced of the truth of^ thefe 

 oblervations. When a perfon afllitled with any fpecies ol 

 fever, is confined in a clofe and heated apartment, in which 

 liie free circulation of air is prevented by doled doors and 

 windows, curtains, &c. and is kept at the fame time under a 

 load of bed-clothes, and fupplied with hot drinks, or even 

 cordials of vinous and fermented liquors, with the view of 

 inducing perfpiration, the confequences are as follow. The 

 whole train of fymptoms is aggravated. The heat of the 

 patient is raifed confiderably above the natural ftandard, 

 notvvithllanding the profufe perfpirations that are conilantly 

 bathing him ; the pulfe is excited to the higheft febrile ftand- 

 ard ; the thirft becomes inceflant to fupply the unnatural 

 wafte of fluids ; the mouth and lips become parched and 

 furred ; the head is in conftant pain, with confufian of ideas, 

 preventing all found fleep, and occafioning diftrefiing dreams, 

 and at length delirium ; the whole powers of the frame be- 

 come proftrate, with difpofition to fainting, on being moved, 

 or on palling an evacuation by ftool ; and from this fituation 

 the recovery is extremely precarious. In cafes of contagious 

 fever. Inch as fmall-pox, meafles, fcarlet-fever, &c., the 

 eruption is always greatly multiplied by this hot regimen, 

 and all the fymptoms are changed to what has been called a 

 putrid tvpe ; the tongue, teeth, and lips, become coated 

 with a black, clammy, and immoveable fur ; purple fpots 

 appear on the (kin ; and the whole difeafe afiumes the cha- 

 rafter of malignancy. There is one difeafe, indeed, which 

 is folely the refult of this iiot regimen, which has made a con- 

 fiderable figure in the writings of phyficians, who never 

 dreamt that it was of their own creation ; we allude to the 

 miliary fever. See Miliaria. 



The above may perhaps be confidered as the extreme of 

 the pifture, which is fcarcely ever to be feen in the prefent 

 day. But the greateft difficulty which a phyfician has even 

 now to overcome, in the majority of cafes of feverifh difeafes, 

 is to counteraft the tendency of nurfes and parents to the 

 adoption of more or lefs of this pernicious fyftem. The fa- 

 lutary chill muft be taken away from all liquids, whether 

 ufed internally or externally ; the cheering breeze is deemed 

 a death-bringing draught ; and though the patient may die 

 from the feverity of a malignant fever, he muft on no account 

 run the flighteft rilk of catching cold ; that is to fay, the 

 poflible occurrence of a flight fore-throat, or a running at 

 the nofe, is to be avoided rehgioufly, at the expence of ag- 

 gravating both the fufferings and the danger, under a more 

 formidable difeafe. The ufe of wine and cordials, in thefe 

 dileafes, is now confined to the poor and ignorant, and it is 

 to be hoped, that the other parts of the hot regimen will 

 not long be reforted to, at leait among the more intelligent 

 clades of fociety. See Cold as a remedy. 



REGiiMF.N, in Chemijlry and Alchemy, is the method of 

 ordering and conducing any thing, that it may anfwer its 

 intention. 



Thus, regimen of fire is the method of making and order. 

 ing fire, and the degrees of it. 



Regimen of the Work, that is, of the philofopher's ftone, 

 called the luorh of patience, is the rule and condudl to be ob- 

 ferved to obtain protedlion. 



There are three things, they fay, to be chiefly regarded 

 in the regimen of the work. The firil, to adminifter a gentle 

 eafy heat at the beginning of the coftion. 



The fecond, to continue this external heat according to the 

 feafon of the work, always obferving fourfeafons, as in the 

 common and aftronomical year ; the beginning being the 

 winter, the progrefs the fpring, then fnmmer, and laftly 

 autumn, which is the time of maturity and pcrfedlion of the 



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