Doctors are often afraid to administer morphia in the case of a patient propped up in bed, with livid ears, nose and nails, with distended jugulars and dropsical extremities, with weak, frequent and irregular pulse.
In extreme dropsical conditions the measures that are useful for the reduction of anasarca constitute the most efficient means for the induction of sleep.
A dropsicalhabit of body, or the commencement of anasarca; paleness, with viscid juices and cold sweats.
Having a dropsical habit of body, with a white bloated skin.
In epilepsy dependant upon effusion, the Digitalis will effect a cure; and in the cases alluded to, the dropsical symptoms were unequivocal.
The increase of the dropsical symptoms now made it necessary to repeat the Digitalis.
The debility of age and dropsical legs had long oppressed him.
A plentiful discharge of urine attended the use of these pills, and she got perfectly free from her dropsical complaints.
Mrs. Smith, about 50 years of age, after a tedious illness of many weeks, had a jaundice, and became dropsical in the legs.
A very fat woman; has been dropsical since November last; with symptoms of diseased viscera.
In the last stage of a life hurried to a termination by free living, dropsical symptoms became the most distressing.
He was a temperate man, not of a dropsical habit, had great pain in his groins, and attributed his complaints to a fall from his horse.
It soon removed the dropsical and asthmatic affections, and steel, with Seltzer water, restored him to health.
It was in the course of this year that I began to use the Digitalis in dropsical cases.
In a week afterwards the dropsical symptoms disappeared, her breath became easy, her appetite returned, and she recovered perfect health.
The Digitalis, and that failing, other diuretics were used, in hopes of gaining some relief from the distress occasioned by the dropsical symptoms; but none of them were effectual.
The dropsical symptoms soon increased again, but he had suffered so much from the severity of the sickness before, that he was neither willing to take, nor I to give the same medicine again.
The effects were most favourable, and the dropsical symptoms were soon removed by copious urinary discharges.
Various little boxes of brown-bread-looking pills ornamented the upper shelf, beside a row of little dropsical chunky junk bottles, whose labels would have puzzled the most erudite M.
It is official in the United States Pharmacopoeia and has emetic, cathartic, diaphoretic, expectorant and diuretic properties, and on account of the last-named action it is used in dropsical affections.
At that rate," retorted he, "Celsus is altogether in the wrong; for he contends that the readiest way to cure a dropsical subject is to let him almost die of hunger and thirst.
So he takes upon him to set his face against watery drenches in dropsical cases?
The claim is made that: “Herniaria has long been recognized as one of the most valuable drugs in the treatment of dropsical affections due to cardiac impairment.
These heretical teachers were swollen with dropsical self-conceit; but this is wholesome, solid growth.
Dropsical gentleman puts some smelling-salts under the nose of old maid.
Compelled to resort to one from my ignorance of the German, I have fallen upon a dropsical fellow, with a Bardolph nose, whose French is execrable, and whose selection of objects of curiosity is worthy of his appearance.
According to your rule, Mr Caxton, he is not so much to be pitied; the dropsical jeweller would give him as much for his limbs and health as for ours!
This treatment alone has cured many dropsical patients.
There is a prominent error in connection with all dropsical tendencies, which should be removed.
In other cases the tumour will be full of watery waste, or there may be a simple dropsical swelling owing to failure in kidney action.
If I were a delicate woman, if I only had weak lungs or a dropsical heart, or a taint of any hereditary infirmity that would surely curtail my days, I could be tolerably patient, hoping daily for the symptoms to develop themselves.
Metallic salts supply us with very powerful remedies for promoting absorption in dropsical cases; which frequently are caused by enlargement of the liver.
When all her teeth were gone, she became quite low spirited, and melancholy in the popular sense of that word, and after a year or two became universally dropsical and died.
Like a dropsicalman calling out for water, water, our deluded citizens are clamoring for more banks.
The wound was not trifling, and to one in his damaged and dropsical condition it was dangerous.
As albuminous urine is of frequent occurrence in dropsical complaints, and its presence regulates in some degree the practice proper to be pursued, the following characters, given to it by Dr.
Two cases of opening into the abdomen, for the extirpation of dropsical ovaries, (p.
This increased inflammation is sometimes occasioned by design or accident, and at other times, it occurs in the natural and progressive course of some disease, formed within the cavity, which is the seat of the dropsical effusion.
According to these, all dropsical accumulations arise either, 1st, From a want of tone or energy in the absorbent vessels, giving rise to a deficient absorption.
As has been stated above, cases that die from diseases causing dropsical infiltration in the subcutaneous tissues should also be handled carefully.
For transportation of all dropsical conditions, govern yourself according to the provisions of the transportation rules.
Diseases of the heart, liver, kidney and dropsical conditions predispose to the early skin slip.
This procedure may be used in dropsical cases and in certain cases, where for some reason the fluid does not reach a certain part, or where a certain part is not completely supplied with fluid, by the arterial injection.
This condition may be looked for in edematous or dropsical cases.
Defn: A dropsicalhabit of body, or the commencement of anasarca; paleness, with viscid juices and cold sweats.
Defn: Having a dropsical habit of body, with a white bloated skin.
