- DIS8 
DISCRETIONE, in the Jtahan Mufic, is ufed to direct 
the finger or player to execute his part with care dili- 
genrly. 
DISCRETIVE Proposirions, are thofe where various 
udgments are made, and denoted, by the particies but, not- 
withftanding, r by words of the hke nature, either ex 
prefled or underitood, 
w 3 the feas, 
change their aoe but not their difpofition ; are called 
difcretive propofition 
, oe the Ancients, 4 name given to around 
fhield, confecrated t e memory 0 famous hero, 
and hung _ in the renee of their gods, as a trophy of 
oa — 
eres figure of this difcus, . _ er of that which 
the ‘Creeks and Romans nufed to ae themfelves with, 
efpecially at their public games which w round 
quait of brafs, s the wor fo much im ufe among 
aftronomers, viz. the dife of the fun, or moon. See 
IS, 
, Disceus, or DisciFrormis Cometa, a comet or 
fiery meteor re 
of this kind is called a folar comet, from 
its rays to thofe of ‘the fun it is called alfo rofa and nae 
feus, from its bright filver ‘colour mixed with a golden 
amber one. 
DISCUSSION, in matters of literature, fignifics a clear 
treating or handling of any point, or problem. The word 
imports a fhaking off, or difpelling the difficulties and ob- 
{curities with which a thing was embarraffed. We fi. 
uch a point was well difeufled, when it was well treated of, 
and ees up. 
ussion is alfo ufed in a medicinal (cate, for a dif- 
pecs the matter of any tumo bald or ete n through the 
pores of the b ; n evacuation of fome thin matter 
gathered in any part, i infenf ble perfp faa 
DISCUSSORIA, Difcutientia, Asadoputixa, difcutients. 
See DiscuTientTs. 
DISCUTIENTS, in Surgery, are fuch a. as 
tend to promote the abforption of effufed fluids or tumou 
All ftimulating lotions, liniments, and even me 
ong 
ere a proportio 
RUISE, SPRAIN, an 
DISDAIN, in Ethics, is a high ne ree of contempt, 
or fuch as precludes any intercourfe with the party 
defpifed. 
DISDIAPASON, in Mufic, a compound concord, in 
the quadruple ratio-of 4 to £, or of 8 to 2. 
The di aaa is produced when the voice goes from 
° 
the firft tone to the fifteenth, and may be cahled a 
Jeficenth. 
The voice ordinarily does not go farther ies from its 
firft tone to the difdiapafon; i. e. it does not go be 
of ad 
or ftrnggle disfigures 
t falf>. In reality, the ancient r feale, or diagramma, 
only extended toa dildiapafon. 
Disp1apason-Diapente, a concord in a fextuple ratio-of 
x to 6. 
Disprap ep eis aie a compound concord in the 
proportion of 1 ‘ 
ISDIAPASON- ‘Ditone, a. compound confonance in the 
proportion of Io to 2, 
ond the. 
DIS 
Dispiarason- iene a compound concord in the- 
proportion of 24 to 35. 
DISEASE, mw ” Medicine, one aes of the ani taal 
economy, in — cre or more of the funGions is altogether 
impeded. o rrform-d with pie or with ts in 
Var‘ous pee cof difeafé have been given by ‘different 
hyfictans Some have laconicaily defined it the abjence of 
eaith, aie ng that this tnvolves another definition, aa of 
Ub. e have defcribed it as ex:fing 1 in particular con- 
ditions of he fluids. or of the folids. 
x 
sar data by the peafant and the philofop! her. 
th and difeafe are relative rather than pofitive terms, 
bod 
Few bie Hg every organ funSion of the 
the moit i c&t fate, while yet they may be coisa as 
in heal ra very confiderable variety of condition, both 
h 
in the mn and bodily funétians, 13 compatible with health.. 
Thus one perfon may be poffeffed of great mufcular flrength, 
another may be —. for the feeblenefs of his mu Lacie : 
vet the health i ia both m y 0 on pauarple a ed. sar 
y it Nb 
of individuals, refiding in a crowded city, and another in the 
country, may be both healthy, i e. all their fun@tions may 
complexion, ftrength, and al ieee are obvio 
iftic of leffer po sal The terms health ae difeafe, there=. 
ore, are in fome degree eatin, and mult be confidered in 
regard to an individual, mpared with the generality of 
men, oe with hin.felf at nee times. 
Difeafe may occur in all patts of the body, in the fluids. 
and he folids, and in each particular organ and funétion 3: 
it may occur fingly, in one Back or in feveral parts at the 
fame time: hence difeafes be fimple or complicated. 
But the moft fimple difeafes ait which we are acquainted, 
produce feveral morbi eid peau or oF Lympions, by which 
alone they are diftinguifhed fro ome of thefe _ 
re occafion al and accidental ; meee are gr el and ferve 
to define and chgracterize the engi and fome again are 
the cffe&ts of thofe «hich arife from the original caufe of the ~ 
difeate, and ate called Jymptomata pene. the {ymptoms 
of fymptoms. 
The fymptoms or figns of difeafes which are wrapet dione in 
the fick, are extremely various and numerous; yet a Wo 
ledge of them ts requifite, both bee a view to learn the , na- 
ate or remo 
ee 
e difea he 
ers of diate me by o 
eae out to us the means by which certain congeries may 
be alleviated ; and where our remedies fail, an examinatioa 
e& guide, in afcertaining the feat and nature of 
a difeafe, from its external figns ;. namely, that which arifes 
out of our knowledge of the nature of the ces of each 
efpective 
