‘204 PRACTICAL REMARKS 
OVARIUM DROPSY wrra ANASARCA. 
§ 29. THE anafarca does not appear until the en- 
cyfted dropfy is very far advanced. It is then proba- 
bly. caufed by weaknefs and eee ure. The Digitalis 
removes it for a time. 
PHTHISIS PULMONALIS. 
-§ 30. This is a very increafing malady in the pre- 
fent day. Itis no longer limited to the middle part 
of es children at five years of age die of it, and 
_ old»people-at-fixty or feventy. Tt. is not confined 
“te the rere: the fair-fkinned, ‘the blue eyed, 
the light-haired, or the fcrophulous : it often attacks 
people with full chefts, brown tkins, dark hair and 
eyes, and thofe in whofe family no fcrophulous taint 
can be traced. Itis certainly inteclious. The very 
fixi& laws ftill exifting in Italy to prevent the infec- 
tion from confumptive patients, were probably not 
enacted originally without a fufficient caufe. We 
_feem to be approaching to that ftate which ‘firt 
reftridions neceffary, and in the furtl ber: - 
in = the difeafe — ws bly ‘fall off 
an pti n, ad fe whieh it it is < difficult to diftinguith: = 
but this difeafe is curable by fteel and. bitters.” 
terion of true — has ect Becca inthe - 
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