Sec. 6. If existing alone, (_i. e._) without accompanying anasarca, is in
children curable; in adults generally incurable by medicines. Tapping
may be used here with better chance for success than in more
complicated dropsies. Sometimes cured by vomiting.
ASCITES and ANASARCA.
Sec. 7. Incurable if dependant upon irremediably diseased viscera, or on
a gouty constitution, so debilitated, that the gouty paroxysms no
longer continue to be formed.
In every other situation the disease yields to diuretics and tonics.
ASCITES, ANASARCA, and HYDROTHORAX.
Sec. 8. Under this complication, though the symptoms admit of relief, the
restoration of the constitution can hardly be hoped for.