DIA 
p. 582.) and all the other fpecies of di- 
teria Medica, vol. il. 
aphoretics, which do excite aweetiag y their ftimulant 
power upon the heart and arterial fyfte ch as ipecacue 
anha, antimony, &c. efe are the oat fort of diaphore- 
tics that can be employed with advantage or fafety in fevers, 
vers is now ac ccowled ed to be ie limited. From an ubfer- 
copious {weat, an 
sof eran to ae aoe her 
crifis, and aid her efforts in the expalfion of t e * peccant 
mours.’’? But experience has decided that Ge imitations of 
art do not produce the fame refults 2s the {pontaneous one- 
rations of the conflitution: a blifter does not fupply the place 
ing, and, by imitating the 
id ffo 
char athe 
arr in tke difeafe, and not au 
Theref thefle (ananeous, cena occur, our 
‘duty conhits only in doing nothing that may tend to inter- 
rupt them, unlefs where they are Seay detrimental. The 
profufe {weats in heétic fever, for example, and the colli- 
quative, which occurs in 
the latter flages of typhus, are of a eee ieee! and, 
therefore, fhould be checked when it 
The value of the other clafe cf dphoeie: which es 
‘{weat by accelerating the general circulation, fuch a 
‘trayerva and ferpentaria, is to be ettimated, nea meee 
their other properties, the ftimulant and cordial, rather than 
prevails, in a @ power and o 
In all febr ile difeates connec with iceall nla tion ; a8 
‘jn pneumonia, phr he 
-other organs, diaphoretics of this ftimulaut pone uft be 
carefully avoided:; fince their mifchievous influence, in acce- 
sthofe which ftimulate sive latter almoft only : but acute rheu- 
-matifm, or rheumatic fever, as it is called, is almoft the only 
acute difeafe in which it 
e 
com- 
n by the name of Dover’s; nes as a fafe 
A active. saphoiae and anbayaes it confifts of opium .com- 
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ieee with the diaphoretics, ipecacuanha, and fulphate of 
S 
Dusit medicines have been employed in various other 
a of a — ronic nature: at one period they were be- 
lieved to have the power of — the seaseie difeafe, 
= the timate fort, - as guaiacum, opium, and other vee 
ble matters. The allos ie to have aoe fom 
of fe prim _ and nee fymptoms of lues venerea, aed 
to have alleviated others; ard they are deemed capable of 
removing certain fequelz of the difeafe, where the farther ad- 
fervations on the 
ticles of the Materia Medica i in the Cure of Lues Venerea,?? ‘as 
. 234, fecond edition 
Diabetes has aifo been faid to have been cured by the ufe 
of fudorific medicines. Two cafes of this difeafe are re. 
corded by Dr. M‘Cormick of Antrim, in Duncan’s Medical 
ommentaries for 1783, in which 
over’s powder, at Ne re is deat to have effcGed a 
cure: and the ee of t e powder, a or 
with the ufe of another werful iaphorcti, the warm bath, 
was fuccefsfully cecominicned. in cafe, by Mr. “Werner r. 
See ** The London Medical ane for 1790,” p.221. The 
natural ftate of the fkin in diabetes is that of extreme drynefs, 
and diaphorefis is with difficulty produced : but it is reafon- 
able to fuppofe, that, re a free outlet is obtained by the 
fkin, the difcharge by the kidnies will be diminifhed. It may 
be d d, howeve nae 3 change alone an be con- 
r thi 
fidered as a cure of dia 3 fince the co 
ganic difeafe, with which : it is commonly conneted, cannot 
be removed by {wea a 
ETIC antimony, or mineral diaphoretic, is a pre- 
paration of acm, i procefs whereot fee under Anri- 
MONY. 
DIAPHRAGM», in a {from voasraees I divide,) 
the mufcle which feparat e€ two cavities abdo omen 
and thorax, and is the chief pee in ation. It is a 
known among anatomilts by the names of feptum sl ee 
fum, ane mufculare, and in common language, by that 
of the mi 
anatomical defcriptions it is often divided into two 
greaicr diaphragm, the true fs tum, which is a thin, broad, 
and arched tendino-mufcular expanfion, ace the cheft 
from the abdomen: and the /efer diaphragm (appendices 
or crura diaphragmatis), which is couneéted to the back 
part of a former, and defcends on the front of the bodies 
of the low 
m in its two halves. 
of the body belonging to the animal fundions, and piaced 
in the middle line, are generally fymmetrical; perhaps the 
deviation from this law in the cafe now under confideration, 
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s being connected in 
meafure with the orga nic ‘fondionn although it is a the 
controul of the 
Its middle couse ofa peli broad and thin sarang 
tendon, ferving as a common point of a - 
the mufcular fibres, and aes the tendinous centre, 
‘tral tendon of the diaphragm. This part is the real divifiou 
of the two peaiee and is placed in the centre of the {pace 
which feparates them. Its figure is fomewhat oval on the 
lateral aipettn; it is contracted into an obtufe end towards. 
the 
