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REMARKS ON DROPSY, 
AND SOME OTHER DISEASES. 
~ H E following remarks confift partly of matter 
of fa&, and partly of opinion. ‘The former 
will be permanent ; the latter muft vary with the 
detection of error, or the improvement of know: 
ledge. I hazard them with diffidence, - and hope 
they will be examined with candour; not by a con- 
traft with other opinions, but by an attentive com- 
parifon with the phoenomena of difeafe. | 
§ 1. THE anafarca is generally curable when feat- 
~ed in the fub-cutaneous cellular membrane, or in 
‘the fubftance of the lungs. 
$2. When the abdominal vifcera in general are 
greatly enlarged, which they fometimes are, with+ 
out effufed fluid in the cavity of the abdomen; the 
difeafe is incurable. After death, the more tolid — 
vifcera are found very large and pale. If the ca-_ 
vity contains — that water-mnay® ve 
: “diuretics. es ener | 
