similar to those
which women experience in a state of pregnancy. These pains are for a
length of time greater in one thigh than in the other, and I believe
it will be found that the disease originated on that side.

Sec. 27. The ovarium dropsy defies the power of medicine. It admits of
relief, and sometimes of a cure, by tapping. I submit to the
consideration of practitioners, how far we may hope to cure this
disease by a seton or a caustic.--In the LXIst case the patient was
too much reduced, and the disease too far advanced to allow of a cure
by any method; but it teaches us that a caustic may be used with
safety.

Sec. 28. When tapping becomes necessary, I always advise the adoption of
the waistcoat bandage or belt, invented by the late very justly
celebrated Dr. Monro, and described in the first volume of the Medical
Essays. I also enjoin my patients to wear this bandage afterwards,
from a persuasion that it retards the return of the disease. The
proper use of bandage, when the disorder first discovers itself,
certainly contributes much to prevent its increase.

OVARIUM DROPSY with ANASARCA.

Sec. 29. The anasarca does not appear until the encysted dropsy is very
far advanced. It is then probably caused by weakness and pressure. The
Digitalis removes it for a time.

PHTHISIS PULMONALIS.

Sec. 30. This is a very increasing malady in the present day. It is no
longer limited to the middle part of life: children at five years of
age die of it, and old people at sixty or seventy. It is not confined
to the flat-chested, the fair-skinned, the blue eyed, the
light-haired, or the scrophulous: it often attacks people with full
chests, brown skins, dark hair and eyes, and those in whose family no
scrophulous taint can be traced. It is certainly infectious. The very
strict laws still existing in Italy to prevent the infection from
consumptive patients, were probably not enacted originally without a
sufficient cause. We seem to be approaching to that state which first
made such restrictions necessary, and in the further course of time,
the disease will probably fall off again, both in virulency and
frequency.

Sec. 31. The younger part of the female sex are liable to a disease very
much resembling a true consumption, and from which it is difficult to
distinguish it; but this disease is curable by steel and bitters. A
criterion of true phthisis has been sought for in the