DIA 
north-weft muft, of i sialel {pring from the mountains that 
lie on the eaft of 
ine France, in 1 the department of 
eufe, ailtri& 
of 520 fadeaaais a canton whic 
upon a territorial extent of 1 524 _ Siomrtess comprizes 31 
communes os 10,258 inhabita 
DIA, A 
chirurgery, prance. a Where saa three letters com- 
mence the name of a remedy, ungue t, platter, eataplafm 
&c. they fignity conpotind and ome, 3 as in diapafma, 
diachylon 
Dia is ‘ikewife the oes | of many terms in the other 
_ arts: as diameter, dialogue on all: which occafions, 
dia, which isan ha ahha’ pate, cr prepofition, is bor- 
rowed from t xreek dsa, ex, OF cum; which begins the 
a ieee iu ce Gree 
we have words wherein dia is no prepofition bor- 
Owe a = m a foreign | me ie Were it is poffible, the 
words age may ; as in diamond, » &e. 
eeapana/ a oo among ihe Romans, pro- 
bably ‘the cae with C 
Dia, in Ancient oo hy, a town of 7 ee before 
Phafis, near the Cimmerian Bofphorus.x—Alfo, an iflan 
of the Mediterranean fea, about three leagues from at of 
Crete, and rather a rock than an ifland ; now called Standia. 
—Alfo, a town of Theffaly, founded by Eacus, re to 
Steph. Byz.—Alfo, a town of Thrace, near mount Athos. 
Alfo, a town stig Eubeea, on the north fide of ae itland, op- 
pofite to Th : it was salle called Athen Diades, and is 
os " Scylleon. —Alfo, a tow 
ocean.— Alfo, a town of Italy, near sr the Alps. 
fays Ae feveral iflands bore this n 
A, DiaBeTa, or Disseaks an ifland of the 
Mediterranean fen. near that of Sardinia. 
DIABAT 
the ae women. itifc. Lex. Ant. 
Steph. Byz. 
E, in Lchth ney the name of a me ie fea-fifh of 
the orbis, or gl be ind, a in a5 things cabling 
iftrix X, e fifh, s {pines or 
cupin t 
prickles are all fixed into-its fin i: ies infertions. See 
DIABET, in Ancient Geography, iflands of the Medi- 
terranean fea, in the vicinity of that 
that there were four iflands of this name. 
ES, in Medicine, a ileal characterifed prin- 
cipally by a profufe excretion of urin 
he term diabetes is derived from SiaSauva, tranfeo, I pafs 
through, becaufe not aed = fluid ingelta, but fome of the 
folid, pafs off by the u 
ariows ane names hee been given to this difeafe by 
he old w Thus, it has been 
morbus fi onda, from the great thirft 
£ deine urinaria, from the council failure which en- 
alfo ae urina, diarrhea ad urinas, diarrhea ad ma: 
ae Rhodes. Pliny fays 
‘The ety mology of the word may admit of every immo- 
deas, difcharge of urine being called diabetes; but its ap- 
plication is confined by phyfictans to an affemblage of haa 
the increafed flow of urine is the moft ob- 
in t Shean tae ent. other diagnohic 
y mptom 8 a. a grea ; a an uh craving for 
food; a dry, fhrinkiog, and parched fice Fa: wafting of the 
» the beginning wa divers terms in medicine ey 
RA, in Antiquity, a oo = = worn by. 
DIA 
fiefh and - ftrength ; and heal a {weetnefs, or faccah- 
rine quality of the urine. In cafes, indeed, this quality, 
without any increafe of cami is the principal character- 
iftic of the difeafe 
‘This difeafe commonly comes on flowly, and almoft imper- 
ing ike firft and earliett £ y~mptems of the 
ftate of it in which the eae and increafe. sf the urine take 
laces as the difcharge of the urine is generally confidered by 
the patients as the neceflary effet of the thirlt, and quantity 
of drink ; it is thus fora long time often overlooked. ‘But 
when the hedtic fever, and wafting appear, the difeafe is then 
generally detected, and the hiftory of it from that period has 
been — detailed. 
D ollo affirms, that it can {carcely be doubted, that a 
previous aff: Bion of the ftomach takes place before the pe- 
riod, or at the time when the peculiar charaGter of the difeafe, 
by the production of faccharine matter, is formed, and fen- 
in the urine. In his firkt 
,a 
difcharge of “rine 3 and morbid affe€tions of the 
faid to have preceded the dete€tion of the diabetic difeafe, 
in the cafes communicated. But this does not appear to 
have been always obferved; and fuch ftatements of facts 
muft be received with caution, habe i particular hypo- 
thefis is to be aided by their eftablifhm 
he molt remarkable fymptoms of Gace when com- 
welled gums, with the teeth feeling as on edge 
acids, and loofe in their fockets; head-ach; a dry hot fin, 
with flufhing of the face; a pulfe ranging from 80 to go, 
but moft generally about 84 or 863; an increafe of clear 
vrine, of a light ftraw a neen having a {weetifh tafte re- 
fembling fugar, or rather honey and water; an uneafinels of 
the ftomach and kidn male a head of flefh; a wearinefs 
= eae aaron to n xertion, with the feeling of 
$3; an excoriation, with for enefa of pa g 
ie x epuce, which is fometines {welled 
contra¢ted ftate of phymofis 
altogether loft. In females see is a 
about the meatus urinarius. Thefe fymptoms continuing, the 
patient becomes fo enfeebled as to be confined to bed; an 
unremitting febrile ftate aod flight delirium take place, 
fometimes with a removal of the peculiar charaCter ot 
diabetes. 
In fome inftances the ibd a is flow, the fymptoms re- 
maining one ary, and even fometimes becoming fo flight 
as to induce the of iagaa t “appof pee cil in health. 
This ftat “" ho owever, feems to have ended upon the acci- 
dental forbearance of ane ines which een ae the com- 
plaint. Deviations in diet and regimen; and mental emo- 
tions, efpecially grief, anxiety, and vexation, generally in- 
creafe the fymptom 
The appearance of the urine in different. inflances, and 
even at different periods of the fame cafe, varies — 
bly; nay, it varies at different parts of the fam 
