(om DROPSY, &. nis 
ftruate regularly i in the incipient ftate of the difeafe, 
and itis not until the preffare from. the fac be- 
comes very great, that the urinary fecretion di- 
minifhes. In this fpecies of dropfy, the patients, 
upon being queftioned, acknowledge even from a 
pretty early date, pains in the upper and inner 
parts of the thighs, fimilar to thofe which women 
experience in a ftate of pregnancy. Thefe pains : 
are for a length of time greater in one thigh than in 
the’other, and I believe it will be found that the 
difeafe originated on that fide. 
§27. The ovarium droply defies the _power of 
medicine. It admits.of relief, : 
eee by a Seon 3 ora eee In ti 7 
cafe the patient was too much. wadnced, and the 
difeafe too far advanced to allow of a cure by any 
hod; but it. soachete us that a. cutie ie may | : 
wfed with seat | yee 
4 28. ‘Wher: tapping. spesaeas setae. I na 
ways advife the adoption of the waiftcoat bandage 
" or belt, invented by-the late very juftly celebrated — 
Dr. Monro, and defcribed in the firft volu of 
1e Medical Effiys. I alfo enjoin my. pati 
se aware from 
per ufe of bandage en ' Lord 
4efelf, certainly” contributes muc 
