The whole works of that excellent practical physician Dr. Thomas Sydenham wherein not only the history and cures of acute diseases are treated of, after a new and accurate method; but also the shortest and safest way of curing most chronical diseases / [Thomas Sydenham].

  • Thomas Sydenham
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M.DCC.XVII
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Credit: The whole works of that excellent practical physician Dr. Thomas Sydenham wherein not only the history and cures of acute diseases are treated of, after a new and accurate method; but also the shortest and safest way of curing most chronical diseases / [Thomas Sydenham]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    reft of the Difeafes ot the Body, wherewith E have been the Lofs I have fuftained in my Bufineís, by Sicknefs, can acquire eafe for others, I fhall receive, now Lam paffing into another World, fome Fruit of the Miferies of this kind I have felt in this Life. . | |] Of a DROPSIE. EVERY Age of Man, and both Sexes, are fometimes clined to this Difeafe than Men: But it feizes thefe efpe- cially when they are in Years, and Women when they have done Breeding. But it fometimes feizes Barren Wo- men, when they are Young; the Pits, by the impreffion are the firft Signs of this Difeafe: But not fo certain a Si of an approaching Dropfic in Women, as in Men; for Courfes upon any Account, are often fo affected: Nor does fuch a Tumour in Men, certainly indicate a Dropfie; for when an Old Man, of a grofs Habit of Body, has for feverzl Years been troubled with an Affhma, and has been fuddenly freed from it in the Winter, a great Swelling prefently feizes the Legs, that refembles an Hydropick Swelling, which is more in Winter than in Summer ; in a companied with it as long as he lives, without any great Ynconvenience. And yet, mnorwithftanding, generally {peaking, a Swelling of the Legs, is to be accounted a Sign of the fupervening Dropfie in Men alfo, efpecially, if thofe {o affected are fhort.Breath'd ; which Tumour increafes daily in Bulk and Quantity, till the Legs containing no more Water, the Thighs are fwelled, and afterwards the Belly, which being filled with Serum, continually put off by the Blood, diftends. it by degrees: to its utmoft Capa- ety 5 Ame !
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