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the bladder, during deep. The {Veiling of the ankles, which 

 frequently attends chlororls, is another eifec"t of deficient acl 

 of the ablbrbent fyftem ; and the pale countenance is occasioned 

 by the deficient quantity of red globules of blood, caufed by the 

 deficient quantity or acrimony of the bile, and confequent weak- 

 ness of the circulation. The pulfe is fo quick in fome cafes of 

 chlorofis, that, when attended with an accidental cough, it may 

 be miftaken for pulmonary confumption. This quick pulfe is 

 owing to the debility of the heart from the want of ftimulus oc- 

 canoned by the deficiency of the quantity, and acrimony of the 

 biood. 



M. M. Steel. Bitters. Conftant moderate exercife. Fric- 

 tion with flannel all over the body and limbs night and morn- 

 ing. Rhubarb five grains, opium half a grain, every night. 

 Flefh diet, with fmall beer, or wine and water. The dffeafe 

 continues fome months, but at length fubfides by the treatment 

 above defcribed. A bath of about eighty degrees, as Buxton 

 Bath, is of fervice ; a colder bath may do great injury. 



11. Hydrocele. Bropfy of the vagina teftis. Dropnes have 

 been divided into the encyfted and the difrufed, meaning thofe of 

 the cellular membrane, the cells of which communicate with each, 

 other like a fponge, and thofe of any other cavity of the body. 

 The collections of mucous fluids in the various cells and cavities 

 of the body arife from the torpor of the abforbent veiTeis of thofe 

 parts. It is probable, that in dropiies attended with great thirfr. 

 ine cutaneous abforbents become paralytic firfl: ; and then from 

 the great thirft, which is thus occafioned by the want of atmof- 

 plieric moifture, the abforption of the fat enfues 3 as in fevers 

 attended with great thirft, the fat is quickly taken up. See Obe- 

 fitas I. 2. 3. i(5. Some ha;/e believed, that the cellular and adi- 

 pofe membranes are different ones ; as no fat is ever depoiited 

 in the eyelids or fcrotum, both which places are very liable to 

 be diftended with the mucilaginous fluid of the anafarca,and with 

 air in Emphyfema. Sometimes a gradual abforption of the ac- 

 cumulated fluid takes place, and the thinner parts being taken 

 up, there remains a more yifcid fluid, or aim oft a folid in the 

 part, as in fome fwelled legs, which cannot eaCly be indented by 

 prelTure of the finger, and are called fcorbutic. Sometimes 

 the paralyfis cf the abforbents is completely removed, and the 

 whole is again taken up inrc the circulation. 



The Hydrocele is known by a tumor of the fcrotum, which 

 is without pain, gradually produced, with fluctuation, and a de- 

 gree of pellucidity, when a candle is held behind it ; it is the 



ft Cmple iucyfted dropfy, as it is not in general complicated 

 y/uh other difeafec, as ascites with fcirrhous liver, and hydro* 



Cephalos 



