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to lie down., does not the extravafated fluid comprefs the upper 

 ts of the bronchi', and to preclude the accefs of air to 



every part cf tfee lungs •, whilit in the perpendicular attitude the 

 inferior parts of the lungs only are compreflecl ? Does notfome- 

 thing fimilar to this occur in the anafarca of the lungs, when 

 the difeafe is very great, and thus prevent thofe patients alfa 

 from lying down ? 



7. As a principal branch of the fourth cervical nerve of the 

 left fide, after having joined a branch of the third and of the fec- 

 cnd cervical nerves, descending between the Subclavian vein and 

 artery, is received in a groove formed for it in the pericardium, 

 and is obliged to make a confiderable turn outwards to go over 

 the prominent part of it, where the point of the heart is lodged, 

 in its courfe to the diaphragm ; and as the other phrenic nerve 

 of the right fide has a flraight courfe to the diaphragm j and as 

 many other considerable branches of this fourth pair of cervical 

 nerves are fpread on the arms j does not a pain in the left arm 

 diflinguifh a difeafe of the pericardium, as in the angina pet~t,o- 

 jfis, or in the dropfy of the pericardium ? and does not a pain 

 or weaknefs in both arms diftinguiih the dropfy of the thorax ? 



8. Do not the dropfies of the thorax and pericardium fre- 

 quently exift together, and thus add to the uncertainty and fa- 

 tality of the difeafe ? 



9. Might not the foxglove be ferviceable in hydrocephalus in- 

 nus, in hydrocele, and in white iwellings of the joints ? 



VI* Of cold Sweats. 



There have been hiftories given of chronical immoderate 

 fweatings, which bear fome analogy to the diabetes. Dr. Willis 

 mentions a lady then Jiving, w r hofe fweats were for many years 

 fo profufe, that all her bed-clothes were not only moiftened, 

 but deluged with them every night ; and that many ounces, and 

 Sometimes pints, of this fweat, were received in veffels properly 

 placed, as it trickled down her body. He adds, that (lie had 

 great thirft, had taken many medicines, and fubmitted to various 

 rules of life, and changes of climate, but (till continued to have 

 thefe immoderate fweats. Pharmac. ration, de fudore anglico. 



Dr. Willis has alfo obferved, that the fudor anglicanus which 

 appeared in England, in 1483, and continued till 155 1, was in 

 Come refpecb fimilar to the diabetes j and as Dr. Caius, who 

 faw this difeafe, mentions the vifcidity, as well as the quantity 

 of thefe fweats, and adds, that the extremities were often cold, 

 when the internal parts were burnt up with heat and third:, 

 With great and fpeedy emaciation and debility : there is great 



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