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Rh is perceptible in the course of the femoral vessels.

The remedial means employed were local abstractions of blood by leeches, anodyne fomentations, and cold lotions. Purgatives and opiates were given according to circumstances; and low diet enjoined during the acute stage of the disease.

Dr. Sims, Mr. Arnott, and Mr. Prout, saw this patient at different periods during the progress of the complaint.

The symptoms observed in the foregoing cases were precisely those which have been described by continental authors, as Puzos, Levret, Callisen, and Gardien, and by the best writers on Phlegmasia Dolens in this country, as pathognomonic of