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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    \ [ 491 ] cither by child-bearing or other caufes, are frequently fubjed to cedematous l'wel- lings in the ancles, and fometirnes, what is worfe, to exulcerations too. Here a metaftafis is evident. To corredl this, and to bring nature into due order again, requires particular attention. Mercurials both exter¬ nally and internally are requilite, and, pro¬ perly managed, will wholly eradicate the virus in the fydem. By this method I have fucceeded to my mod fanguine expec¬ tation, when many other remedies in the common mode of practice had been tried to no eftedh 314.The third kindof cedematous fwellings of the ancles, I reckon fuch as attend hedtic patients, where the ikin over the whole fur- face beiides is in a contracted date, fo as merely to cover a living fceleton, clofe to the very form of the bones. This is a fymptom indeed of the lad druggie of nature with death. Here hope feerns gradually to vanifh ; yet whilft there is life, we outfit not wholly to forlake the patient. A mer¬ curial plaller, applied to the foals of the feet, will prove highly ferviceabie to promote perfpiration j and I have more than once experienced that this application, toge¬ ther
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