It seems, then, that water may exist in the cavity of the thorax, without any remarkable symptoms, except dyspnœa and difficulty in assuming the horizontal posture. But in organic diseases of the heart, there is a long train of frightful symptoms, distinguishable by the most superficial observers. We infer that these disorders have been unnecessarily confounded. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Cases of Organic Diseases of the Heart, by John Collins Warren