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water, the same quantity of simple cinnamon water, and alittle white sugar. This draught must be swallowed beforethe effervescence be quite over, and may be repeated everytwo hours, or offener,, if the vomiting be violent.

As the least motion will often bring on the vomiting again,even after it has been stopped, the patient must avoid all man-ner of action. His diet must be so regulated as to sit easyupon the stomach, and he should take nothing that is hard ofdigestion. We do not however mean that he should live en-tirely upon slops. Solid food, in this case, often sits easieron the stomach than liquids.

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CHAPTER XXXII.

OF THE DIABETES, AND OTHEE DISORDEBSOF THE KIDNEYS AND BLADDER.

The diabetes is a frequent and excessive discharge of urine.It is seldom to be met with among young people, but oftenattacks persons in the decline of life, especially those whofollow the more violent employments, or have been harddrinkers in their youth.

Causes. — A diabetes is often the consequence of acute dis-eases, as fevers, fluxes, &c, where the patient has suffered byexcessive evacuations; it may also be occasioned by great fa-tigue, as riding long journeys upon a hard-trotting horse, car-rying heavy burdens, running, &c. It may be brought on bythe use of strong, stimulating, diuretic medicines, as tinctureof cantharides, spirits of turpentine, and such like. It is oftenthe effect of drinking too great quantities of mineral waters.Many imagine that these will do them no service unless theybe drank in great quantities, by which mistake it happens thatthey often occasion worse diseases than those they were in-tended to cure. In a word, this disease may either proceedfrom too great a laxity of the organs which secrete the urine,from something that stimulates the kidneys too much, or froma thin dissolved state of the blood, which makes too great aquantity of it run off by the urinary passages.

Symptoms. — In a diabetes the urine generally exceeds in