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OF THE MEDICAL USE OF DIURETICS. 
These remedies are important in many diseases, 
= put chiefly in all the varieties of dropsy: diluent 
drinks necessary aids here. They are employed 
- beneficially in all diseases of the urinary organs, 
nephritis, gout, sometimes in rheumatism. Com- 
‘bined with sudorifics they have been said to be 
very serviceable in pulmonary diseases. Used in 
ulcers-of the legs attended by edema, in scurvy, 
elephantiasis. ie oy, 
