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Excerpt from An Inquiry Into the Nature, Causes, and Cure of Hydrothorax: Illustrated by Interesting Cases, and Many Living Examples of the Success of the Mode of Treatment Recommended
If the lovers of novelty should look for new remedies, they will be disappointed but they will find old medi cines, or those in common use, applied in different forms and Combinations, with different views, and, he presumes to hope, with a degree of success unparalleled in the history of the disease -they will find that in eyery instance it may be relieved, that in a considera ble number it may be kept in check for months, and years, with long. Intervals of repose, or comparative ease and comfort to the patient and that in some it may be perfectly and permanently cured, even under the most unpromising circumstances. This, it is'pre sumed, is mo re than can be accomplished, in the present state\of our knowledge, from any mode of treatment hitherto adopted.
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