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TABERNiEMONTANUS, James TnEODORE,in£io- 

 graphy, a phyGcian and botanift, was born at Berg-Zabcrn, 

 in Alface, and having praftifed as an apothecary, and ac- 

 quired fomc knowledge of botany, went to France, where he 

 took the degree of M.D. Advancing in his profeffion, he 

 became- firft phyfician to the Eleaor-Palatine, the bifhop of 

 Spire, and other perfons of rank. He died at Heidelberg, 

 whither he had removed from Worms, in the year 1 590. 

 Apprehending that Providence had furnifhed every country 

 with remedies fuitable to its difeafes, he coniided much in 

 the efficacy of herbs ; and particularly in the powder of 

 mugwort. His German Herbal confifts of three volumes, 

 publiflicd fcparately in the years 1558, 1590, and 1592, and 

 containing figures, copied either by himfelf or others from 

 nature. This work was well received, and has been often 

 reprinted. He alfo publiftied in German a treatife on baths 

 and mineral waters. Haller. Eloy. Gen. Biog. 



TABERNAS, in Geography, a town of Spain, in the 

 province of Grenada ; 15 miles N.N.E. of Almeria. 



TABERNE, a town of Curdiflan ; 50 miles E.S.E. 

 of Kerkuk. 



TABES, in Ancient Geogynphy, a town of Afia, in the 

 mountains of Paretacene, upon the frontiers of Perfia and 

 Babylonia. Strabo and Quintus Curtius. 



Tabes, in Medicine, a wafting or confumption of the 

 body, accompanied with heftic fever. The diftinftion which 

 nofologifts have made between tabes and atrophia, is founded 

 on the prefence of heftic fever in the former, and its abfence 

 in the latter form of difeafc. Such a definition of tabes, 

 however, would comprehend phtliifis, a term which is ge- 

 nerally reftrifted to that fpecies of confumption which has 

 its origin in difeafes of the lungs. (See Consumption.) 

 The ground of the diftinftion between tabes and atrophy, has 

 already been fully difculTed under the head of Atrophy : 

 and the train of fymptoms conftituting the fever that accom- 

 panies tabes, is fufficiently detailed under the article Hedic 

 Fever. Dr. CuIIen has enumerated three fpecies of tabes ; 

 the firft, which he calls the purulent, arifing from fuppura- 

 tion, either of an internal or external part, and the feat of 

 which may be various, according to the organ originally dif- 

 eafed ; the fecond, the fcrofulous, being the confcquence of 

 fcrofula affefting different parts, but more efpecially the 

 mefenteric glands ; and the third, the venenata, proceeding 

 from the operation of a poifonous fubftance received into 

 the body. The other affeftions which had been claffed by 

 Sauvages under tabes, fuch as the tabes dorfalis, nutricum, 

 fudatoria, a fanguifluxu, fyphilitica, and a hydrope, are re- 

 ferred by Dr. CuUen to the genus Atrophy ; which fee. 



Tabes Dorfalis, a fpecies of confumption arillng from the 

 excelTive evacuation of femen : its fymptoms and treatment 

 are detailed under Atrophy. 



Tabes Mefenlcrlca, or mefenteric confumption, is a dif- 

 eafe that more paiticularly affefts children, and arifes from 

 obftruclion and enlargement of the mefenteric glands. 

 Children are liable to its attacks from the age of three or 

 four years, and become lefs fo when they have attained that 

 of eight or ten, unlefs they are of fcrofulous habits, in which 

 cafe the difeafe may fupervene at a much later period. Its 

 relation to fcrofula is clearly marked, from its more frequent 

 occurrence in families where this difeaie is hereditary : but 

 it may, at the fame time, arife independently of that affec- 

 tion, from a great variety of caufes. It may be induced by 

 any protrafted difeafe of infancy producing much conftitu- 

 tional difturbance, and more efpecially by fuch as are at- 

 tended with diforder of the funftions of the alimentary canal. 

 It may often be traced to improper treatment, or unwhole- 

 fome food ; to long-continued irritation from teething ; to 



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the fupprefTion of eruptions, or the incautious ftopping of 

 diarrhoea ; and fometimes appears to be the confequence of 

 exanthcmatous fevers, as the meafles, fmall-pox, or fcarlatina. 

 The prefence of worms in the inteftines, has very frequently 

 been accufed of laying the foundation of this difeafe : but it 

 may be queftioned, whether tliey are not more generally the 

 confequence than the caufe of derangement in the primae 

 via; attendant on this diforder. 



The fymptoms which attend the early ftages of this affec- 

 tion, and before the enlargement of the glands has become fen- 

 iible,are fimilar to thofe which accompany many of thedifeafes 

 of the alimentary canal, more efpecially thofe produced by 

 worms, and can hardly be diftinguifhed from them. Indi- 

 geftion occurs in various degrees, denoted by the ufual 

 figns, fuch as acid eruftations, fetid breath, great in-egu- 

 larity in the adfion of the bowels, and in the appearance of 

 the llools ; occafional fever, occurring, however, lefs in regu- 

 lar paroxyfms tlian happens in the remitting fever of infants, 

 but giving a heft ic flulh to the cheeks, which, when the fever 

 has iubfided, are of a pallid hue. The appetite is extremely- 

 irregular ; fometimes it is nearly gone, at other times it is 

 voracious, and attended with a fenfe of craving, unlefs fpee- 

 dily fatisfied. The fymptom which particularly charafter- 

 ifes this difeafe, when occurring in conjunftion with thofe 

 above ftated, is fhooting pains in the abdomen, varying con- 

 fiderably, both in their feat and their intenfity-, at different 

 times. Thefe pains, though felt more or lefs every day, 

 occur only at intervals, and frequently, after a longer inter- 

 mifTion than ufual, they return with more feverity thaa 

 before. 



The belly now begins to fwell and to grow hard, while, 

 at the fame time, the limbs and countenance are emaciated : 

 the ftrength and fpirits decline ; the heftic fever is more 

 and more diftinftly marked, and exerts its ufual undermining 

 influence on the conftitution. Cough frequently attends 

 this complaint in its latter ilages, and the fyniptoms become 

 blended with thofe of true pulmonary confumption. The 

 difeafe of the mefenteric glands is often, indeed, found, on dif- 

 feftion, to have extended to other vifcera, and more efpecially 

 to the lungs : and tubercles, and even purulent matter, are not 

 unfrequently found in them, although the fymptoms during 

 life did not particularly indicate any affeftion of thefe organs. 

 The mefenteric glands themfelves exhibit different appear- 

 ances, according to the progrefs which the difeafe has made : 

 in the early ftages they are enlarged in their fize, and are 

 fomewhat fofter to the touch than in a natural ftate : but 

 upon being cut into, do not exhibit any fenfible deviation 

 from their natural ftrufture. If the patient, however, has 

 not already funk from the exhauftion of the conftitutional 

 affeftion, the difeafe proceeds to fuppuration, the pus being 

 intermixed with the white, foft, and curdy matter which is 

 fo peculiar to fcrofula. 



Mefenteric confumption is a difeafe of frequent occur- 

 rence, and when it has proceeded a certain length, is almofl 

 invariably fatal. Yet we find, in fome rare inftances, that the 

 powers of the conftitution are fometimes called forth in an 

 extraordinary manner under the moft unpromifing circum- 

 flances, and the difeafe recovered from. In the early periods 

 of life, indeed, we fee nature abounding in rcfources, which a 

 more mature age cannot fupply : and there is, to ufe the 

 language of the late Dr. Gregory, " a greater luxuriancy 

 of life and health in infancy than at any other period. In- 

 fants, it is acknowledged, are more dehcately fenfible to 

 injury than thofe advanced in life ; but to compenfate this, 

 their fibres and veffels are more capable of diftention, their 

 whole fyftem is more flexible, their flvuds are lefs acrid, and- 

 lefs difpofed to putrefcence ; they bear all evacuations more 



eafily, 



