| DIG 
the circulating fluids fuddenly, or by producing naufea. The 
digitalis is therefore an invaluable r nabli 
re and leaft curable of all difeafes, pulmonary confump- 
The fuccefs which has attended this practice has been very 
various; many well marked and fuily authenticated cafes 
have been recorded, in which all the fymptoms that charac- © 
terize inefficient pulmonary confumption, pain of the fide, 
frequent rigors, fhort — bloody and puriform Bo aeciae 
id pulfe, a 
received benefit from digitalis, yet, where the 
fymptoms bigs fo far advanced az to be unequivocal in their 
nature, the benefit has not been permanent; on the 
whole, it may be fafely Rite that the chance of fuccefs 
In Tach 
it w ndard. e tincture is the prepara- 
ou | steed preferable in this ae, as it is, on the whole, 
mo la aa than the infufion, and more certain than the 
wi 
which this 
phlogiftic p 
Digitalis ta alfo been found of fingular fervice in {paf- 
modic afthma, efpecially when combined with opium, and in 
meafles, particularly in the latter ftages of this difeafe. 
other inftances will occur to the judicious pratitioner in 
which this sg Sy aed powerful medicine may be tried with 
rational hopes of fuccefs. 
IGITALIS jae in Botany. Dr. Plot, (Nat. Hitt. 
of Staffordfhire, p. 196.) has defcribed a foffil remain of 
° , Pp 
teriftic forms of the feed-veffel of this {pecies of plant: 
e ought, more properly, to be confidered as an animal 
rem 
DIGITATUM Fotium. See Lear. 
DIGIT I indicis manus abdudor,)| 
Dicit: indicis pedis abdudor, | 
Diciri medii pedis abduétor, f Dae), SCeaeee 
DUCTOR. 
J 
Diciri minim manus abdubtor, 
Diciti minimi pedis adduétor, 
See Exrensor. 
LEXOR. 
IGITI minimi pedis flexor bre om See F 
RUM manus pa connate See Exten- 
sor and 
FLExoR. 
~Dicitorum pedis extenfor brevis, 
Dicirorum pedis extenfor longus, 
Vor, XI. 
aroun 
DIG 
Diarrorum manus flexor perforans, 7) 
DiciroruM manus flexor perforatus, a Bes Peciccon 
nd Frexor. 
IGITORUM pedis flexor longus, J 
ae is the term ulually given to the fingers and 
8 index is the fcre e-finger ; meas, the middle 
as ris, the ring- e little finger, 
oes are generally defignated by the names of digitus 
primus, oe » &c, beginning with that which is next to 
the great 
Dicitvus ” Peneris, Venus’s fagers i in Botany, a name by 
which fome authors have called the nymphza, or water-lily. 
DIGLIGGY-NEUR, ia Cava a town of Candy, 
in the ifland of Ceylon, next in importance to Candy, lies to. 
the eaftward of the capital about ro or 12 miles, and in 
the direCtion of the Englifh fort Batacolo. i 
nger: and min Imus th 
y; on this account it has 
times chofen as a royal refidence. At oné period, when the 
king was driven out of Candy, and his capital burnt, he found, 
here a retreat to which no European army has ever been 
ble to penetrate. A few ata are pagaien among the 
tae hills ; and 3 where the woods 
e fome clear {pace, ae foil, hou ee poor, produces 
“DIGLI TO, or Diciatn, in Ancient Geography, a tor- 
rent of Afia, whofe fource is in the (Nine 2 ba Pe in 
the eaftern part of the mountains of it runs f; 
north-eaft to fouth-weft, and nes itfelf into the ke 
Arethufa. 
a5 
H, from dis, twice, and yaudw, LT engrave; a 
kind of imperfe& triglyph, confole, or the like, with on ty 
— ane: or engravings, inftead of three. See Tri 
“"DIGNAC, in Geography, a {mall town of ee in the 
department of the Charente; nine miles S. of A léme 
DIG » a town of Venetian Iftria, about a league 
from the fea, N. lat. 45° 10’. E. long. 13° 14’, 
n Latin Dinia, or Dew a {mall but hand- 
ome t of "France, j in the deparment of the Lower Alps, 
chief ae of a diftrict, fituated in a rich valley on the river 
page which, not far from thence, falls into the Durance, 
552m es S. of Paris, and 42 S. by W. of Embrun. Lat. 
ne is a very gers town. Czfar,in his Commenta- 
ries, ‘Balle | it * Digna, inter m 
€ 
| ae “de R 
It is ede anteraaily ae internally, but it 
yet undergone an exact chemica epee has : italy 
contains much fulphur and alkali, as it emits a 
able {mell. 
tive. 
pents have no venom, and children may play with them with 
impunity, whilft thofe which are found but at a {mall dif- 
tance from the {prings, bite, and are venomous. Thefe moun- 
tains abound with curious petrifications ; the crater, of an 
extinct volcano, is diftinly vifible on the top of one of the 
hi 
apne 
The n of Digne contains 2872, and the canton 10,362 
inhabitante, “difpected j n 31 communes upon a territorial ex- 
tent of 5224 itometres, As Me rie! place of a diftri&t Digne 
