An inaugural dissertation on general dropsy : submitted to the examination of the Rev. John Ewing, S.T.D. provost, the trustees and medical professors of the University of Pennsylvania, for the degree of Doctor of Medicine, on the 8th day of May, 1793 / by John Newnan, of Salisbury, in North Carolina.

  • Newnan, John, approximately 1773-1833
Date:
MDCCXCIII [1793]
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Credit: An inaugural dissertation on general dropsy : submitted to the examination of the Rev. John Ewing, S.T.D. provost, the trustees and medical professors of the University of Pennsylvania, for the degree of Doctor of Medicine, on the 8th day of May, 1793 / by John Newnan, of Salisbury, in North Carolina. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ *4 ] cine fucceeded, but he obferves they were pcrfons of a young and vigorous conftitution. 4. Exercifc, when violent, has fucceeded in evacuating the water; by debilitating the iyftem to that point we have in view, in re- commending the above with the following remedies. 5. Failing; which we are conflrained to ac- knowledge to be evidently debilitating. And that it has a tendency to evacuate the water in dropf'y, I infer, from its having excited ab- forption in two afcitical patients, who were under the care of Dr. Rufh, during my attend- ance at the Pennfylvania hofpital. I alio in- fer, that falling has a tendency to excite ab- fbrption in dropfical patients, from the hifio- ry of two cafes given us by Dr. Mead; thefe were entirely cured by abftaining for a cer- tain time from ufing any kind of liquids. 6. Low diet, and copious draughts of weak diluting drinks. I have heard of one pcrfon's being perfeclly cured by low diet and weak drinks. Dr. Rufh accounts for abftinence from, and excefs in drinking, proving equally effec- tual in curing dropfy, bv fuppofing the for- mer to aft by preventing a frefh fupply of flu- ids, and the latter by opening the urinary paffages, and thereby evacuating the fuperflu-, ous waters from the body.