Is not this disease similar to that in the limbs at ([§ 3],) and also to that of the abdominal viscera at ([§ 2].)?
ASTHMA and ANASARCA.
§ 12. If the asthma be of the kind mentioned at (§[§ 9] and [11],) diuretics can only remove the accompanying anasarca. But if the affection of the breath depends also upon cellular effusion, as it mostly does, the patient may be taught to expect a recovery.
ASTHMA and ASCITES.
§ 13. A rare combination, but not incurable if the abdominal viscera are sound. The asthma is here most probably of the anasarcous kind ([§ 10];) and this being seldom confined to the lungs only, the disease generally appears in the following form.
ASTHMA, ASCITES, and ANASARCA.
§ 14. The curability of this combination will depend upon the circumstances mentioned in the preceding section, taking also into the account the strength or weakness of the patient.
EPILEPSY.
§ 15. In epilepsy dependant upon effusion, the Digitalis will effect a cure; and in the cases alluded to, the dropsical symptoms were unequivocal. It has not had a sufficient trial in my hands, to determine what it can do in other kinds of epilepsy.