196 PRACTICAL REMARKS 
§11. There is another kind of afthma, in which 
change of pofture does not much affect the patient. 
I believe it to be caufed by an infarction of the 
lungs. It is incurable by diuretics; but it is often _ 
accompanied with a degree of anafarca, and-fo far 
it admits of relief. 
- Ts not this difeafe fimilar to that in the limbs at 
(§3,) and alfo to that of the abdominal vifcera at 
= 5 ae es 
§ 12.-1F the afthma be of the kind mentioned at 
{$§ 9 and 11,) diuretics can only remove the ac- 
companying anafarca. But if the affeGion of the 
breath depends alfo upon cellular effufion, as it 
moftly does, the —— may = taught to = a 
ees 
ASTHMA ne ASCITES. 
4 13x RAR E combsihiatioe. but nots incura- 
ble if the the abdominal vifcera are found. The 
-afthma is here moft probably of the anafarcous 
kind (§ 103) and this being feldom confined to the 
lungs only, the difeafe Looe appears in the = 
ecisad form. 
