Ascites, Anasarca, and Hydrothorax
§ 8. Under this complication, though the symptoms admit of relief, the restoration of the constitution can hardly be hoped for.
Asthma
§ 9. The true spasmodic asthma, a rare disease—is not relieved by Digitalis.
§ 10. In the greater part of what are called asthmatical cases, the real disease is anasarca of the lungs, and is generally to be cured by diuretics. (See § 1.) This is almost always combined with some swelling of the legs.
§ 11. There is another kind of asthma, in which change of posture does not much affect the patient. I believe it to be caused by an infarction of the lungs. It is incurable by diuretics; but it is often accompanied with a degree of anasarca, and so far it admits of relief.
Is not this disease similar to that in the limbs at (§ 3,) and also to that of the abdominal viscera at (§ 2.)?