Medical transactions / Royal College of Physicians of London.

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    lation, the heart and lungs were loaded and diftended to the utmoft ftretch ; and by this diftenfion, when it arrived at a certain point, the ferous parts of the blood were fqueezed out through the coats of the veflels, and a hydrops pedtoris et pericardii was brought on. Though this effufion of fluids mull have very much ftraitened the capa¬ city of the thorax, and caufed an ad¬ ditional preflure on the heart, yet cannot the fymptoms of the difeafe, with propriety, be deduced from hence; fince the fenfe of fuffocation on motion, &c. probably exifted long before any fuch effufion came on ; nor would the patient have been much relieved, or for any length of time, could that extravafated ferum have been let out by any operation. It is poflible, that this induration of the femilunar valves may not be always the caufe of this difeafe; though it feems not improbable, that fome 7 - mal-