DIS 
on conjeure, eed iia by thofe pag hot pier 
pac d fa&ts, on which the phyfical fciences reft ; 
confequently as puided by no better rules than ‘thofe which 
thecaprice or threwed 
which would be contemned for its imbecility, if expofed. 
But this myftery is deprecated by all rational ele 
The truth is, that the phenomena of the animal economy are 
as regular and immutable as the other phenomena of pee 
and confequently are as open to obfervation, and as capable 
of generalization and rile ek ment 5 that is, of being reduced 
to a {cience, as the other departments of natural knowledge. 
The fads, indeed, have not as yet been {ufficiently noted, to 
enable us to form a perfe& theory; as is likewile the cafe 
with the chemical, eee and magnetical {ciences. 
as a ea 
ea the aera of 
a aT and the changes of the biood in ne cou 
ade by the aid cf chemiflry; the phen 
have been the fubject of fuccefsful sities reat 
extent, and mary of its laws afcertained, both i in health and 
difeafe; the effects of many powerful agents on the animal 
body have been difcovered experimentally, and many general 
conclufions refpecting them wear fuch as thofe of 
cold, of heat, o: pale and fom 
mercury, &c. have b 
period juft mentioned. 
like other branches of natural knowledge,_is in a courfe of ad- 
vancement, and that rae the fame fure grounds of obfervation 
iftory of difeafes will — ge am- 
s improvem con- 
wale are greatly Siminifhed in 
Of the plague we know little 
: the fearlet ae “which, under 
Eur 
rfe, has 
a of ‘critability 
in tho rt, as facts 7 the fcience advances ‘to- 
wards certainty and perfedtio circumftances which 
inflaence difeafe in ‘the animal ony, are 
their combinations, per ot! 
of life is neceflarily more meine ee that of dead 
m th Re 3 op which oth are 
e, viz. fa& afcertained es experiment, 
The variety and complication of the phenomena a health 
and difeaie point out, in the met pda iaa manner, the 
neceflity of various applications, in the of reme 
all, or of many dif- 
eafes. Nothing, therefore, except a effrontery of empirics, 
can equal their error and falfehood, in the affurances of the 
very eontiderable 5 ialoamich that very ftrong impreffions, 
4 
_fion on the min 
DIS 
excited in the former, will often hae beg diforders of td 
d confidence. 
that meny reme edi 
in the cure of eG. aie in eee nce of ihe confi- 
dence of the patient in their ie or fome other dee 
, have been followed by a recovery o 
health, in the procuring of which xn had phyfically no in- 
fluence, 
The reader will find the indications of cure, and th 1e reme- 
i a 
titles of tees hi nian? Sees See Gregory Con nfpeét. 
Med. Theo 
ES ae. Pla aes in Vegetation, are {uch affections as 
take eet in vegetables from fome der angement in the actions 
or bag either of the whole, or fome particular part of 
ey proceed from agreat variety of different caufes, 
oat have very different appearances as they affect the wood, 
the bark, or the leaves of the plants. Thefe dsfeafes may, 
erhaps, be confidered, in 
internal decay, a morbid {tate 
blights, lightning, and the attacks of animals of the infect 
kind. 
et 
a 
But as particular trees and plants are liable to be affected 
by particular difeafes, their caufes, nature, and means of 
removal, will be more properly treated of under the names b 
which they are ufually denominated, and after defcribing the 
plants. See Prants, difeafes o 
DISEL, in bes sale a town 2 ne in the pro 
vince of Khora 198 ’ 
DISEMBARK, fieuifies to ia So from on fhip. 
EMBODY. See EmBop, 
DISEMBOGUE. Whena fhip paffes out of the mouth 
of fome great gulf or es they cail it difemboguing. 
They fay, alfo, of a,river, that at {uch a place, or after it has 
run fo many leagues, it d: fembogues itfelfinto the fea 
DISENTI S. r Dissentis, in Geography, ” {mall 
town of Switzerland. in the canton of the Grilons, ued in 
a moustainous but ica te irrigated by two fources 
of the Rhine, and rem le fora rich abbey, which ts 
faid to have been foun ded i in the aaa century, and af 
which St. Stgifbertus is pais to hay he firk abbot 
from ot a 1614 to . Itis fea between Tavetich 
and he abbut of Difentis, Peter of Pictlingen, 
was one eat the three paviots who firtt {wore oo to 
the Flelvetic confederacy undcr the lime tree at Tro 
1 
FI YHEM. 
DISFRANCHISING, = taking away one’s freedom, 
or Le See Francuis 
ORGE, in the i is ufed for difcuffing or 
difpertiag an inflammation or {welling : thus, if a horfe’s 
legs are gorged or {welled, we fay he muft be walked out to 
dilgorge them 
ISGRACE, ina Military Senfe, has various modifica- 
tions; from abfolute infamy to fimple reprimand ; it is alfo 
variable in its extent according to the rank of the perfon to 
whon 
