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to this—not letting the patient up too early, and always 
being on the watch,—the cases of dropsy may either be 
avoided or most of them relieved, unless the patient's health 
has been much impaired. 
With reference to the causes of death of those cages 
which fell exclusively under my care, five died from fever 
with throat affections, a rapid pulse and sinking of the vital 
powers, in nine days. One died in seven days’ fever, ren- 
dered intense by inflammation of the periosteum of the 
thigh. 
One died from sloughing ulceration of the throat on the 
twelfth day; this sloughing condition, as that of the two 
following cases, seeming to be the effect of the poison of 
the fever. One sank from extensive slough in the thigh, 
and died on the twenty-fourth day, having been relieved of 
severe head affections by active cuppings. 
Another, a female child—who had suppurated glands in 
‘the neck, wich slough on the thigh which was healing up— 
an abscess in the chest carried off. . 
Two who died were women in childbed; and two were 
infants three weeks old. 
In 1842 and 8, out of twenty-seven deaths, eight were 
during the fever, nineteen of anasarca. 
