Colonial North America: Countway Library of Medicine

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little fever, low degree of heat, after giving Ʒfs [½ dram] three times a day for several days, moisture commenced the became much easier and continued to mend.

Gout. In gout much has been disputed about their use, the truth is Diaphoretics as auxiliaries are indispensable after purging. This is natures process and will succeed often.

Diabetes. This disease has been attributed to two causes, Viz. a derangment in the secretory organs, and a depraved or vitiated state of the asimilatory organs, my own opinion is that it is owing to a morbid state of the stomach and chylopoetic viscera and this I think is evinced in the gastric distress, proceeding, 1st Particularly in Debauchers, 2d Disorder of the stomach always

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attend it, 3d A diet of animal food alone will produce it, 4thly Dissections show us no morbid state which may not be sympathetic, and considerable derangement in the chylopoetic viscera. The disease has also been divided into two kinds Viz. Diabetes Melitus, when the urine has the color, smell, and taste of honey, and Diabetes Insipidus when the urine is pale and tasteless; this distinction is quite unnecessary as both of them are managed upon the same general principle, with a strict attention to the system, when the surface is dry and parched, or cold and scaly, Antimonials, and Dovers Powders, are necessary, the last is particularly efficacious, to produce an increased discharge