An historical essay on the dropsy / By Richard Wilkes ... ; To which is added, an appendix, by N.D. Falck.

  • Richard Wilkes
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1777
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Credit: An historical essay on the dropsy / By Richard Wilkes ... ; To which is added, an appendix, by N.D. Falck. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    / [ 481 ] tion of the parts within. If the water which gullies out is thin and mild, it plainly;' indicates the difeafe was merely from a re¬ laxation of the lymphatics, and that the parts are otherwife found. In this cafe, injedt luke-warm, all round the parts, the antacrid injedtion compofcd of rofe water and calomel; apply a pledget of dry lint to the wound* and cover the whole lcrotum with a good large mercurial plafler, leaving a flip over the wound, fo that it may be dreffed occafionally. Put the patient to bed immediately ; let him be kept quiet, and (paring in diet, till he is quite recovered ; which I have frequently experienced to be in about a fortnight.- The wound fhould be dreffed, as occafion re¬ quires, with a little yellow bafilicon inter¬ mixed with finely-levigated precipitate, and, if requifite, the injedtion repeated ; which will promote a gentle fuppuration, and not let the wound dole up till all is fafe within. 293. One would fuppofe the calomel would become irritating to the tunica albu¬ ginea of the tefticle, and create inflamma¬ tion ; but this will not be the cafe : at fir ft it will caufe a fomewhat difigreeable fen.fa- tion 1
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