Dropsies in the chest either with or without anasarcous limbs, are much more curable than those of the belly.
Previous to the year 1777, you informed me of the great success you had met with in curing dropsies by means of the fol.
Is there not cause to suspect that many dropsies originate from paralytic affections of the lymphatic absorbents?
These constitutions are shewn to be liable to paralysis of the lymphatic absorbents, producing the various kinds of dropsies in Section XXIX.
It is very common in dropsies of the chest or lungs to have the difficulty of breathing relieved by copious sweats, flowing from the head and neck.
There are some diseases, which obtain at least a temporary relief from the exertions of insanity; many instances of dropsies being thus for a time cured are recorded.
Do not the dropsies of the thorax and pericardium frequently exist together, and thus add to the uncertainty and fatality of the disease?
When the serous effusion is very great, the pressure exerted upon the heart weakens its action, and may produce death soon; when it is not so great, it may cause dropsies of other portions of the body.
The animal loses flesh rapidly, and dropsies of the extremities, of the under surface of the belly, or of the internal organs may show themselves.
It purges choler, opens obstructions of the liver, helps the yellow jaundice, and dropsies in the beginning, strengthens the stomach and lungs.
The causes of all local dropsies are not always to be regarded as the same.
Although this is the common order in which dropsies occur, exceptions are not infrequent.
The local dropsies are often characterized by special terms.
Regions which are the seat of mechanical dropsies are often affected by inflammation, with abundant serous exudation--the so-called inflammatory dropsy.
Dropsies are subdivided, as regards their distribution, into general and local forms.
Dropsies resulting from venous obstruction, as well as those following an obstruction of the thoracic duct or its branches, or of the several lymphatics of a part, are classified as mechanical dropsies.
Dropsies have been divided into the incysted and the diffused, meaning those of the cellular membrane, the cells of which communicate with each other like a sponge, and those of any other cavity of the body.
The pain in the left arm which attends some dropsies of the chest, is explained in Sect.
Cold sweats about the head, neck, and arms, frequently attend those, whose lungs are oppressed, as in somedropsies and asthma.
And dropsies are liable to succeed the cure of old ulcers of the legs, which have long stimulated the system.
In the beginning of the dropsies of infirm gouty patients, I have frequently observed, that they make a large quantity of water for one night, which relieves them for several days.
In dropsies the fluid is sometimes absorbed, and poured into the bladder by the retrograde motions of the urinary lymphatics, as during the exhibition of digitalis.
Hence he was vehemently opposed to all astringents, to the use of which he ascribes the rheumatisms and dropsies which sometimes occur.
It has often been observed in dropsies of all kinds that diuretics act better after a little mercurial action is set up in the system.
Digitalis is especially useful in dropsies which result from an obstruction to the cardiac circulation.
As evacuants, Cathartics are employed in diseases of the brain especially; and Diuretics are made use of in dropsies to diminish the amount of fluid in the blood, and in this way to promote absorption.
It has for several years been recognized that a salt-free diet in dropsies due to disease of the kidneys is a valuable aid in causing absorption of such exudates and of preventing greater exudations.
For this reason a salt-free diet is often ordered in dropsiesoccurring in valvular disease.
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