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the end of an entertainment, and fubftituting water in its 
place, or applying cold to a perton who has been expofed to 
an exceflive degree of heat.” The progrefs to indire& debi- 
lity is alfo retarded by diminifhing the excitement from time 
to time, and proportionately increafing the excitability, and 
thereby giving more effet to the a€tion of ftimull. 
In the cure of indirect debility, babi be its degree, 
and from whatever fort of exceffive us it has arifen, 
little lefs of the ftimulus, whic is 
w a 
the abufe Of irae liquors, is_not ud 
the praGtice of fome, b 
s the judicious Dr. Pitcairn, of Edinburgh, 
is faid to have treated a highland chieftain, who applied to 
in ae fituation. The do€tor gave him no 
ae a promife from him, that he 
fie Ae much wax into the wooden 
queich, oa of which he ‘drank ‘his hese as would receive 
he impreffion of his arms. The wax thus gradually accu- 
mulating, diminifhed daily the quae of ae oo cee 
the whole gueich was filled with wax ; and t ieftain w 
thus gradually, and without 1 gel to his Sante con, ad 
of the habit of drinking fpirit 
The cure of the saat eat of any ftimulus, fhould 
be firft fet about by chan nging it for a lefs; this for a ftill 
lefs; and the intention of cure fhould be "always to pals 
from the ufe of the more selene and diffufible, which nature 
in her healthy ftate rejeéts, to that of the more dur able, till 
eae = thy ftate can at laft be maintained by the ufval 
Thro ough the whole courfe of direé debility, or debility 
Excite refo 
never to be leffened, and debility increafed, with t 
giving greater | effe& to a new ae , by penne 
ofter n as this at in practice, the 
; and, if he debility fhould happen 
we fhould begin with the {malleft degree of ftimulus, and 
then rife to the ufe of a greater and greater, till the morbid 
abundance of excitability be gradually worn off, and health 
at laft reftored. 
may be saa in as effects of intenfe cold, or 
abftraétion of hea mb is benumbed by cold, if 
heat be fuddenly applied 2 a ae re pain is pete, ahi: 
if the hea ulus of heat be continued, will be’ followed by 
violent inflammation, terminating in mortification ; the direct 
debility being fuddenly converted into indire& ‘debility by 
ver-ftimulation, while the excitability was redundant. The 
; fafelt mode of reftoring a froft-bitten limb is to begin with 
the loweit degree of ftimulus, fuch as gentle fri€tion with 
{now, and gradually proceed to warmer applications, as the 
excitability diminifhes, until it is reduced to the ufual ftand- 
ard, and can bear the ufual ftimuli. This is the practice of 
the Roffisns, and the inhabitants of cold countries in gene- 
ral. See 
The phe 
Juftrate this fu It has been found by experience to 
be abfo aera nelly to begin the ufe of aliment in the 
oft c otherwife inflammation of the fto- 
mach ia ee eonledience, Food, not only the moft {paring 
in quantity, but ofthe mildeft and kat ftimulating nature, is 
to be firit adminiftered, to be repeated at fhort intervals, and 
OLD. 
nomena of ftarvation from want of food alfo il- 
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gradually increafed both in quantity and nutritious -quality 
by which «means the powers of the ftomach are at lgagth 
brought back to bear the ufual ftimuli. 
Thus far the theory of dire& and Haas debility is:the 
refult of a corre generalization of fa@s, and ferv 
undamental principle in the treatment a man 
But in attemptin 
the bafis of an explanation of all diforders, | te 
ves ‘Us a5 a 
acs 
Brunon s have quitted the path of indu@tion, and fubfti- 
tuted sala es of their own creation, for thofe which they 
ought ve ere in the phenomena of nature. See Ex- 
CITABIL 
DEBIN, in oa a = of Arabia, in the country 
of Yemen, 38 miles Cham 
DEBIR, in ye Cupra. called Kirjath fepher, ad 
city of letters, and Kirjath-arba, a city of Judah, n 
Hebron. It was taken by ae ua, an 7 fell by lot to Caleb. 
Tt an ae to the Teac Joh 5, 16. 
xxi..15. 1 Chron. vi. . beyond 
Jorda oe Johh. xiii. 26. a a of Benjamin, which had 
belonged to Judah, Jofh. x 
a oe in Mythology, a nee ace _ A ciel Hare 
gigantic ftature, as 
r pag he young women who vifit ia 
dol i in Gee G ie ciel when they fhali have hufbands, 
receive an anfwer from a prieft who i is placed in the hollow 
of it. Some gratuity is el rete in confequence of this 
{uppofed communication with t 
DEBLAT 
belonged to the Moabites, ee = 
diGted by Jeremiah. Ch. x 
DEBLAW, in Gengrapl iy, a os of Bohemia, in the 
circle of Chrudim; 4 miles S.S. W. of Chrudim. 
D and Bar a a female and a male judge 
of Ifrael, who, after Seale general of the Canaanites, was de- 
eta and flain by Jael, fung a hymn or canticle of thank(- 
giv 
ve 5a 
DE BORUS, in Ancient es -aphy.a igs of Macedonia, 
in Peonia; called by Thycydides Dober 
RA re in Geo raphy, a town of Abyfii 
180 miles S. of Gon — vas 
Desra ao: a — of Abyflinia; go miles S. W. 
of Gondar 
a ‘Szmona, a town of Abyffiniay 110 miles S. of 
Gon 
DEBRETZIN, Desrezen, Desrecuen, Dex 
CINUM, a large 
uin of which was pre- 
BRE- 
and populous town of Auttria, i in’ Upper 
Hungary, in the a of Bihar, 54 miles S. E. of Tokay; 
54 a eat Waradin; 105 miles E. of Buda, 
at 
‘Debretzin, though i it has the title and privileges of a 
town, muft be confidered as a village, is per- 
haps the eae village in Europe, as it contains 30,000 
inhabitants. But fhould it be confidered as a town, it is 
one of the worft, though its pce aré not poor. Itis 
furrounded with a hedge, and the town gates are like Eng- 
lifh field gates, {tuck with thorns and Ceetie . The houfes 
with only a few exceptions, confift merel 
ards the eets are not pav ved, but a few 
of the moft frequented ibs are laid déwn in oe middle for 
the foot ie 
ie eee part of the inhabitants are Calvinifts, 
Their Sanayi college is at Debretzin. The building is 
irregular, old and decaying. The ftudents are very nu- 
merous. 
Debretzin is famous for its foap manufadture, its bread, a 
woollen 
M, in Ancient Geograph 47a town which 
