194 PRACTICAL REMARKS 
_ $3. In fwollen legs and thighs, where the refift- 
ance to preffure is confiderable, the tendency to 
tranfparency in the fkin not obvious, and where the 
alteration of pofture occafions but little alteration 
in the ftate of diftenfion, the cure cannot be effect- 
ed by diuretics. 
Is this difficulty of cure occafioned by fpiffitude 
_in the effufed fluids, by want of proper communi- 
“cation from cell to fey or is the a rather caufed 
Is not this difeafe in the limbs fi Sag: to tint of 
‘the vifcera (5 2)? 
§4. Anafarcous fwellings often take place in pal- 
fied limbs, in arms as well as legs; fo that the fwel- 
ling does not sg gan merely upon pofition. 
hight Fic 
ing te from paralytic afiedions of 
oforbents ? And if fo, is 
; : : 77 5. Is there not ne to fufpedt that many drop- 
ictirable aos medicines. _ Tapping may be 
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