*, DIE 
‘Diesis guadtantal of eae is the Eth part of a 
‘major tone, or 262 + § 
IESIS #7 ‘ental of Avifoxeas, 
tone, a) L+ef+ 3 
Dis ee a eal is an interval very nearly 
2m; of which he flates, that 38 of them, 
is ate 3d part of the major 
# 
equal . a” 
“and 19 ene minor, make upa major twelfth ; 3 and alfo, 
“that 34 of them, aud 17 {cmitones minor, make up the minor 
eleventh. 
DIESPITER, i in Antiquity, a name given to fone, 
ome authors will have st the fame with. Dios Pater, ie 
"piter father; Jupiter being called in Greek Zeus, or Aeu 
whence the oblique cafe @-, &c. 
fignify Dict pater, father “a the day. St.-Auguttin derives 
the name from dies, day, and partus, a on, bringing 
forth 3 it being Jupiter fae tg: fosth the d Of which 
-fentiment were Servius and Macrobius; the nes adding, 
that in the language of the Ofci they called him Lucentins, 
t. C. I. feems to: Geass 
pater, anda not 
I E, ‘or i eesenbe RG, in Geography, a agree 
high valley of a in the canton ot Bern 
eight miles long, ane oad, containing t sithes 
the clerical jurifdiétion of 1 Sb ae ae ar 
‘French, ond are of the Provetant re an. 
DIESSENHOFE cient tow of Switzerland, in 
the canton of Thur ne ee 
ma 
count of Kibourg, is fuppofed to have founded this place, or 
at leaft walled it in, about the yearir78. From him it de- 
‘volved to the counts of Habfburg, and was taken from the 
houfe of Auftria by the Swifs in 1460. 
DIESSENSTEIN, atown and caltle of Germany, i in the 
reircle of Bavaria; 12 miles N. of Paffau. 
DIES oo Van, in Biography, a painter and en- 
commen - aa edom, and thresh the they are rae 
— by an agreeable harmony. This mafter has etc 
na flight, but matterly ftyle, ‘feveral sa “of { {mall andlaace 
He died ia 1704. Pilkington and Strutt. 
rest, in Geography, a townofl: France) in the ceparement _ 
the Dyle, chief place of a canton int n, fitt 
ated on the river Demer, three miles E. of. Monten and a 
manufac- 
tion amounts to 5953 ° indiv iduals. ‘The canton contains 13 
communes, and 13 52883 inhabitants, deta: a peeeecnee euat 
of 215 kiliometr 
DIET, pee "dicta, § in Medicine, the regimen in refpeQ 
Others hold 4 Diefpiter to to . 
DIE 
? food and drink, adopted’ more particularly with a view 
the prevention and cure of difeafes. 
° Che importacce of a proper regulation of the diet in pre- 
ferving the health, even of the moft robuft, cannot for a mos 
ment be qu ueftioned; but it would appear that both phyfi- 
cians, in their theoretical difquifitions on this f{ubje@, and man~ 
kind, in their praGtical aL at of the refults, have fallen 
into frequent errors, but o iferent nature. Phyficians 
d the modifications of diet, both i in health 
tothe omaliy of their food. $ to Oe uality of our diet, 
indeed, an over-anxious paca of rules and precepts is de 
be deprecated ; it has frequently been the occafio 
has not feldom augmented the indifpofition of the fick. 
Cuftom and experience have long fince taught mankind what 
food and what regimen are ufeful and wholefome to the gene- 
rality of men; and among thofe matters, which are generally 
wholefome, no particular article is to be avoided ; unlefs in- 
dividual experience has pointed out fome eculiar conftitu. 
tional difpofition to be affe&ted by ieee fubftances. For, 
io other refpeGis, thofe who are not deficient in common judg- 
ment, will readily afcertain what forms: — modes are more 
congenial with their individual conflitutio 
It we look into the maar of eek od inhabiting the 
a Gent parts of the globe, fo far as we are acquainted with 
e fhall 
it, Ww nd that different 1 nations fubfift on kinds of diet 
very “di erent from eac er,'yet all enjoy a degree of 
health, which renders ae Baa to their duties in life 
in the countrtes which they inha pr art of the 
eaftern Hue is beat fubfifted by rice and vegetables; 
the ioe ent s of many countries live upon 3; others on a 
of the year. Ina nr no kind of food injures u re 
capable of being habituated to every {pecics, and Me bate 
ing into nutriment almoft every production of ‘nzture. It is 
obvious, therefore, that in a ftate of health, the pena fers ee 
of the quality of our viétuals is of lefs importance than it has 
Gaet been deemed. We are often afked, 
Fothergill, what our opinion is refpecting certain ree at of 
food, a3 to their being more or lefs wholefom haps 
‘the moft pertinent Lae in common would saan that oak 
? Does your 
€8 it agree sacri ae lordihip = 2 
lordthiy hke it? Yes. 
Yes. See Medical Obferva- 
y then it is wholefome.” 
tions and Togs uiries, vol, v 
ut; even to pie heithy, an  atetion to guantity is by no 
means een e many people, indeed, whd 
feem to be poileffed of rare poner of digeftion, as to be 
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