This hot fresh water mingling with the poisonous "water" of dropsy dilutes it--renders it not only so much less injurious, but tends powerfully to its removal.
You have a case, say, of dropsy in the abdomen: put on two folds of soft flannel, wrung out of cold water; put two folds dry over the moist ones.
A collection of serous fluid in the areolar texture of the scrotum or in the coverings, especially in the serous sac, investing the testicle or the spermatic cord; dropsy of the testicle.
Relating to, or connected with, hydrocephalus, or dropsy of the brain.
An accumulation of liquid within the cavity of the cranium, especially within the ventricles of the brain; dropsy of the brain.
A form of dropsy is a common disorder resulting from these conditions.
I saw the dropsy gaining rather than losing ground; the distance growing still shorter between the tappings.
I may add that Rademacher nowhere hints that the Spiritus glandium quercus stands in any relation to alcoholism; he regards it merely as a spleen medicine, specially indicated in dropsy due to a primary spleen affection.
It occurred to me that if the acorn tincture were to act curatively on the spleen the consensual kidney affection and its dependent dropsy would mend.
Whether it will prove equally efficient in cardiac dropsy only time will tell.
I call it new because it has not been mentioned in any of our medical works, although the use of Blatta Americana (American cockroach) as a remedy for dropsy has been mentioned in journals.
In a case of dropsy of cardiac and renal origin (albuminuria) in which there was great oedema, cured in two or three weeks.
Duncan's paper was published in the Homoeopathic Recorder for 1898): Any new remedy that promises relief in dropsy will be hailed with pleasure by the profession.
I was called to see a man about forty-five, suffering from general dropsy with heart and other complications, who had been under the care of a homoeopathic physician some time.
Martini has cured five cases of ovariandropsy in the greatest possible degree with the same remedy.
The Indian cockroach is used not in cases of dropsybut in cases of Asthma, a most obstinate disease to deal with.
The old gentleman was confined by dropsy in his lower extremities, and probably found it uncomfortable to sustain the annoyance of public life except when absolutely necessary.
One of these sailors died of dropsy while in my service; and, as I write, the memory of his death flashes across my mind so vividly, that I cannot help recording it among the characteristic events of African coast-life.
Each barracoon was tended by two or four Spaniards or Portuguese; but I have rarely met a more wretched class of human beings, upon whom fever and dropsy seemed to have emptied their vials.
Digitalis: the infusion is the most valuable in acute and tubal nephritis, and in renal disease attended with dropsy due to cardiac disease.
Acids, Mineral: nitrohydrochloric acid especially useful in chronic hepatic affections, dysentery and dropsy of hepatic origin.
Baths: warm water and hot air and Turkish, to increase action of skin after dropsy or uremic symptoms have appeared.
Jaborandi: in renal dropsy with suppression of renal function.
Dropsy is discussed as an independent disease through the exhaustive speculations of thirty-two pages.
At last he fell sick of a dropsy at his house at Tibur.
Arbogastus his murderer, and Eugenius, died of a dropsyat Milan in 395.
Now, if you dare to keep him low, A dropsygives the fatal blow.
For performance, Nature has no mercy, and sacrifices the performer to get it done; makes a dropsy or a tympany of him.
His dwelling, Tlalocan, was a fruitful and abounding Paradise where those who were drowned, struck by lightning, or who had died of dropsy were certain to go.
An enlargement or protrusion of the mucous membrane of the lachrymal passages, or dropsy of the lachrymal sac, dependent upon catarrhal inflammation of the latter.
A swelling from effusion of watery fluid in the cellular tissue beneath the skin or mucous membrance; dropsy of the subcutaneous cellular tissue.
Two children were brought to me, a girl with a dropsy of a year's standing, and a boy with only one testiculum, for neither of which did I prescribe.
In dropsy the native doctors cut the body to let out the water, as we do.
Sometimes the secretion of fat, and its accumulation in the adipose membrane, is almost as rapid as that of water in anasarca; on which account some of the old writers have called obesity a dropsy of fat.
Lord Melcomb is dying(234) of a dropsyin his stomach,' and Lady Mary Wortley of a cancer in her breast.
The eyelids, ankles, legs, and lower part of the belly are apt to show the dropsy most.
Recovery usually occurs, in favorable cases, within a few weeks, with gradually diminishing dropsy and increasing secretion of urine, or the disease may end in a chronic disorder of the kidneys.
Still, recovery is far from being impossible, even after dropsy has made its appearance, for the size of the heart may decline under strict abstinence from alcohol, and the oedema disappear.
Perhaps cough, nocturnal orthopnoea anddropsy may be beginning to give trouble.
I have known a man of 43, going straight from London to the Alps, have not only praecordial distress but dropsy of his legs after his first ascent in his regular holiday.
Even then the prognosis is not hopeless, for undoubtedly a certain proportion of cases of dropsy in old persons with degenerated heart and vessels are still amenable to rational treatment.
It also appeared that no pensionable disability from dropsy had existed since the filing of his application.
The claim was rejected by the Pension Bureau on the ground that the dropsy causing his death was not due to his military service, but that he was subject to the same before his enlistment.
In the year 1880 he filed an application for pension, alleging dropsy and disease of his eyes, caused by an explosion of ammunition.
When the balance between exhalation and absorption is destroyed, by either or both of these means, a dropsy will be the consequence.
This was a standing rule at the Children's Hospital, and I am certain that its non-observance will be followed three times out of four by dropsy and kidney-disease.
The degree of dropsy is, however, by no means an absolute measure of the amount of kidney mischief.
Dropsy and partial paralysis made his life a torment.
The law of homoeopathy also manifests itself in the formula similia similibus curantur; the Brahman in India treated dropsy with ablutions, not in order to add to, but to subtract from, the quantity of liquid in the patient's body.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dropsy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
