Acute Dropsy (Beriberi?.)
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finement in which she lives; menstruates regularly; liver and spleen of normal size ; no tenderness on pressure over either organ. The disease began about the middle of October, when she suffered from slight diarrhoea and profuse discharge of urine. I afterwards noticed that her feet and legs began to swell; the swelling came on gradually, and was hardly noticed at first: as it progressed she suffered from pain in the extremities and feverishness at irregular intervals. Now the cellular tissue of the lower extremities is highly (edematous, pitting deeply on pressure. She complains of irregular action of the bowels, viz. a necessity to go to stool 4 or 5 times a day; but only a small quantity is passed each time. The heart's action is normal, and no anaemic
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