DIET. 
Rave occurred in our eee iaaee it may be as jultly attri- 
buted to other changes i e of life, as toths firping 
of tea; to the increafe Ka ee in every rank, and every 
alae life. 
a {tate of adtual difeafe, and efpecially in febrile. com- 
a. a certain degree of caution is requifite; but not fo 
much, perhaps, as isoften preferibed. Four, in the febrile 
ftate, the ftomach naturally loathes animal food. and is averle 
in the extreme to the flronger aud more alkalefcent kinds, 
which it cannot be forced to take without much opprefii, Ny 
and increa(e of the difeafe : but in the decline of the fever, = 
with impunity 8 pol 
of the patient theuld be foecaly con sleds 
the officioutnefs and mitfta indnefs of nurfes and 
t; they oe 8 upon him articles, which 
aie 
and which,, therefore, injure him. 
r nurfes are of co 
= bas § 
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Pam s 
or want of nourifhment, as they cannot eat, 
unlkfs fomething comfortable 
Febrile thirit is mot effeétually reared by fimple water ; 
pertics of ao water are f{carcely changed, except in its fla- 
our, ma ufed; fuch as water in which currant-jelly, 
and various ae ine been mixed, or tamarinds, roatted 
apples, faze, balm, or other pa: ‘atable ingredients. 
In chronic difeafes, accompanied with hetic fever, it is 
important to fupport the ftrength of the body, without 
ftimulating the arterial fy item ; that is, by adminitering a 
for 
e 
milk of the afs-and the goat, which concaina larger propor- 
tion of fugar, and lefs of the butyraceous and cafcous matter 
ly or more nutritive, 
are re frequently preferred. But cow’smilk may be ealily rendered 
more facgharine or lefs cafeous by art, and its q: ualities appo 
pera 
n health, or removes 
le operation of edict $. 
tet of 
moving tne leading fymptoms, if not in ing the dittref- 
fing and generally fated difeafe, the Diasrres mellitus, has 
been ft rougly exhibited by. Dr. Rollo; and it cannot be doubt- 
ed that this diet hasamuch greater power over the fymptoms 
of this obfcure malady, than all the medicines which have 
as ee ae adminiftered for itscure. See Diaperes. 
e gout, apoplexy, pally, lethargy, and other difeafes 
ofa Fall habit, arife Ae too great a quantity of blood, or 
of fat, &c. in he m, ari nid temperance in diet is the 
mott effeatual and iuerceobatl e mode of preventing and of 
removing the predifpofition to thefe difeafes. Dr. Gr 
gory, a prefent pee ‘of the ae of phyfic at 
Edinbur e effect of ftri& 
tem biel ane rporeal exercife, i in only banifhing 
the ieee from the eciaiaticn, although he had it heredi- 
om 
tarily from both parents, and foffered fome fevere attacks a€ 
an early period of life, In the inftanee of the miller of Bil. 
lericay, we have a ftill more ftriking inftance of the benefits 
crived from a proper change of diet, to the loweft degree 
of abfinence, in remsvi tg enormous corpulence, and all its 
aug fymptoms of d'feafe (See Corpurency.) In fa&, 
much of the adminiftration of medicines might be luverfed- 
ed, would mankind pen their appetites in a fomewhat 
roul of reafon; and Dr, Cheyne’s 
y jaf. mes one, ie fays 
pound of blood, take a purge, or a fweat, - ‘droppi ng 
reat meal, or by abltaining from ae ee or ferment ed 
liqaors for four or five days, by opening a 
vein, {wailo owing ¢ a dofe of vill, or nee re a stiiodne bolus. 
ee a Health, p. 35. 
he diet of infants and chil dren fhoula a 5 Sess with 
great atic Man ti € 
improper food; fora 
teitines, occafiqned by crude and ill-digelted aliment,is one of 
the mott prolific fources of c-nvulfons in the early periods, 
and of marafmus and cabes pander Here, as in moft 
other points, we chiefly err, by negleQing the peapnies of 
nature. ‘The proper food for infants is pointed in milk 
of the parent, and, therefore, in our attempts to ee a 
dict, when that is not to be procured, or is not in fufficient 
abundance, it behoves us to imitate the food of nature. 
1gT-Drinks, a form of phylic, including: all the medi- 
cated wines, wheys, and ales, ufed in chronic cafes. . They 
require a courfe. or continuance to anfwer any intention of 
moment. In acute cafes they are of no ufe; but where the 
diforder of the conftitution is fd to be gained upon, 
_ es may be had from them. 
or Dyet, is alfo ufed for an aflembly of the ftates 
or oe es of the empire, or Poland, to deliberate and concert 
meafures for the public goo 
e Spa dict of the empire is ordinarily heid at Ratif- 
on. Ic confilts of the emperor in perfon, or by his repre- 
fentative or commifiary ; the nine ele€tors, three of whom 
are ecclefiaflic, and the other fix {.cular, forming the eleé- 
oral college 5 
aaa it without his confent, or re 
onit. Inthe abfence of the empe 
ea of bears tothe king of the Rom iet 
laws, raifes taxes, determines differences, cgi ie feveral 
d May, 
held (= the kings of pe : they = t leaft, once a year. 
and every freeman had ar refent 
hei t when the 
princes, dignified secleffatics: and Gores, pa beads territo- 
rial and independent jurifdi¢tion, the diet n affem- 
bly of the feparate itates, which formed a | cour dene of 
which the emperor was the head. Whift the a of 
the empire remained in its primitive form, the feveral mem- - 
bers of the diet were obliged to attend in perfon, Shea 
he not only loft his vote, but was liable to a heavy penalty. 
When the members of the diet became oo cia 
the right of fuffrage was annexed to theterritory or dignity, 
not to the perfon; and the members might fend ther pate : 
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