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— e a Lines, § eae In the cafes of Hentery, of the 
‘diar ucofa, e{pecially SS it ha — en frem acri 
, pen el es a ee harfis, a i c 
colliquative diarrhea, the nica ss of autes is obvious- 
div 
of opinion on the fubject; and thefe are the principal modifi- 
cations of diarrhcea, to which this indication is applicable. 
The means adapted to fulfil the fecond indication, of re- 
moving a preternatural ftimulus from the inteftines, confift in 
the ee of evacuants, or correctors of acrimony. 
Hence t of emetics, of purgatives, of glyfters, with 
e one view mucilaginous diluents, alkalies, abforb- 
ents, antifeptics, with the other 
As indigettion and ae prefent i in the flomach, are 
teere the caufe of di cir fo emet ics have o 
found ferviceable in thi 
crudities that have paffed into the bowels, a 
aniverfal praClice among the people at large, to give a purge 
for the eure of a diarrhoea, But this practice, in the opinion 
of that able phyfician, whofe name we have fo cften had oc- 
cafion to quote, we mean Dr. Cullen, is founded on very 
miftaken notions refpeGling the difeafe, and feems to be for 
the moft part fuperfluous, and in m urtful. It 
arifes, it may be fuppofed, he fays, ioficient to evacuate it- 
felf, fo far as that can be done by purging ; ; and as in cholera, 
oin the fame kind of diarrhoea, it will be more proper to af- 
fift the evacuation by pears and demulcents, than to in- 
creafe the irritation by purgat 
extreme, the profeffor has given a fan@i-n to another. 
a recent cafe of idiopathic diarrhoea, fuch as the crapulofa, or 
that from cold, a gentle purgative is feldom, if ever, in the 
flighteft degree hurtful; it expedites the irritating fordes from 
the bowels, which, ower plaufible the fuppofition of their 
invariably purging off themfelves, we believe are frequently 
found, in fa&, to bei 
gative is generally indicated, and, if the bowels be very irri- 
table, its irritating quality may be diminifhed by combining a 
{mall dofe of an opiate with it. 
The acrimony, which oie diarrhoea, e{pecially in children, 
is moft commonly of an acid nature, and is generated in the 
oe during | the imperfed digeftion of the 008 ‘ Alka- 
nd h 
ere fore 
to remove the irritation of this acrimanious caule ot diarrheea. 
ave me 
vers, The theory is queltionable; but thofe antifeptics 
which are at the fame time powerful cordials and ftimulants, 
fuch as wine, and alcohol, are ufeful auxiliaries in removin 
Such a diarrhoea, together with other fymptoms of thofe fevers. 
When the ¢hird sadication occurs 3; when there is, at the 
fame time, a morbid irritability of the inteftines, and an un- 
afyal sie applied to them, the latter muit be removed 
or cotre where that is practicable, by evacuants or other 
mea and he e irritability moderated, Abforbents, fuch as 
pean of chalk, teftaceous powders, lime-water taken 
, oa a connected with the application of cold, 
DIA 
a ps will - to ue any acid acrimouy, that may 
e in the canal: entle Izxatives may be com= 
bined ae them, Taek 2 as nace hefe are principally 
indicated in pales. of chronic diarrhoea, in debilitated } habits. 
A determination of the fluids to the flcin, iaphoretics, by 
warm bathing, by reftoring fupprefled difcharges, or fu eda 
ing {nch as may be equivalent, by warm clothing, fridio 
and the exercife of geftation, will aid in fulfilling this indica 
tion ; efpecially in cafes where the occurrence of diarrhee 
the ra ~ 
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medicines, with the {pices, and opiates. 
ufe of a fpoonful of mutton fuet diffolved in four ounces of 
warm wilk, twice a day, both as oe and nutriment to a 
patient under chronic diarrheea. mmentarii de Morb. 
rial Pp. 12 fimilar acne was recommended b 
a x bla ese in the diarrhoea which fucceeds to dyfentery. 
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DIARTH ROSIS in ee a aipenera term ka th 
tion, 
The various fpecies of daritoke are samed nie . the 
figure of the united furfaces; or the degree of motion which 
they are capable of performing. 1. oe planiformis; in which 
the oppofed a pala are nearly 
a Rea > 7 ev 
HEA, : Ancien Geography, a port of Africa, in the 
Pto 
the convexity and con 
vity are a fo confiderable, asin the fhoulder, lower joint, 
& iflinG:ons arifing from the extent of motion 
formed are; 1. D. laxa, 
& 
which admits ~ ae motion, 
di 
seas ginglymus, or hinge-like joint: asin thee 
ee ots = pes re, “&c. In other sothances one 
move in r dire&tion on the other is 
is called D. bode Zea it is exemplified in all ie arthrodia 
articulations. 
D Y, a term fometimes ufed for a journal, or day- 
book, containing an account of uel day’s proceeding. Thus 
we oe diaries of the weather, & 
‘oe 
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et 
oo 
Diar Sliaal, is a fever lon day. See Draria, and 
ee 
DIAS, in Ancient Geography, a town of Afia Minor, in 
Lycia. Steph. Byz. 
DIASCHISMA 
» in Ancient Mufic, an a confifting 
inor. Itisani aptery) fo called by Pytha- 
C. its ratio is $24:238 a is the comma 
imum or comma of Bostius, the ancient comma, and 
the quint-wolf of earl Stanhope; it is ce difference between 
3 the 
