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CITES and ANASARCA. Sec. 7. Incurable if dependant upon irremediably diseased viscera, or on a gouty constitution, so debilitated, that the gouty paroxysms no longer continue to be formed. In every other situation the disease yields to diuretics and tonics. ASCITES, ANASARCA, and HYDROTHORAX. Sec. 8. Under this complication, though the symptoms admit of relief, the restoration of the constitution can hardly be hoped for. ASTHMA. Sec. 9. The true spasmodic asthma, a rare disease--is not relieved by Digitalis. Sec. 10. In the greater part of what are called asthmatical cases, the real disease is anasarca of the lungs, and is generally to be cured by diuretics. (See Sec. 1.) This is almost always combined with some swelling of the legs. Sec. 11. There is another kind of asthma, in which change of posture does not much affect the patient. I believe it to be caused by an infarction of the lungs. It is incurable by diuretics; but it is often accompanied with a degree of anasarca, and so far it admits of relief. Is not this disease similar to that in the limbs at (Sec.3,) and also to that of the abdominal viscera at (Sec.2.)? ASTHMA and ANASARCA. Sec. 12. If the asthma be of the kind mentioned at (Sec.Sec. 9 and 11,) diuretics can only remove the accompanying anasarca. But if the affection of the breath depends also upon cellular effusion, as it mostly does, the patient may be taught to expect a recovery. ASTHMA and ASCITES. Sec. 13. A rare combination, but not incurable if the abdominal viscera are sound. The asthma is here most probably of the anasarcous kind (Sec. 10;) and this being seldom confined to the lungs only, the disease generally appears in the following form. ASTHMA, ASCITES, and ANASARCA. Sec. 14. The curability of this combination will depend upon the circumstances mentioned in the preceding section, taking also into the account the strength or weakness of the patient. EPILEPSY. Sec. 15. In epilepsy dependant upon effusion, the Digitalis will effect a cure; and in the cases alluded to, the dropsical symptoms were unequivocal. It has not had a sufficient trial in my hands, to determine what it can do in other kinds of epilepsy. HYDATID DROPSY. Sec. 16. This may be distinguished fr
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