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pneumonia. Edematous swellings, cough, disinclination to work, 

 pleuritic stitches, which might easily be mistaken for colicky 

 pains, often succeed it. 



There is a greater disposition to metastasis or shifting of the 

 seat of the inflammation, than in pueumonia. It attacks almost 

 every part. Dropsy is the most frequent change — efiusion in the 

 abdomen is substituted for dffiision in the chest or thorax. 



