Observations on the nature and cure of dropsies : and particularly on the presence of the coagulable part of the blood in dropsical urine; to which is added, An appendix, containing several cases of angina pectoris, with dissections, &c. / By John Blackall.

  • Blackall, John, 1771-1860.
Date:
1813
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Credit: Observations on the nature and cure of dropsies : and particularly on the presence of the coagulable part of the blood in dropsical urine; to which is added, An appendix, containing several cases of angina pectoris, with dissections, &c. / By John Blackall. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Of Dr. Percival's I shall only remark, that it was briefly related, and but once seen by that physician; and that there is an un- soundness of the liver or biliary congestion, which produces symptoms bearing a charac- ter of great resemblance to the angina pec- toris, but, as far as I have seen, marked by a more active circulation, relievable in a great measure by venae-section and vomits, as Dr. Percival's case was, and greatly in- jured by opiates. The practice, therefore, is very different, and the distinction between the two diseases should be precise. In Dr. Fothergill's case the changes found on dissection were certainly not sufficient to account for the symptoms; and unless, as Dr. Parry has suggested, some ossification of the coronaries was overlooked, it must re- main one of the exceptions before alluded to. In all the remaining cases, there was some alteration of structure tending to ossification about the origin of the arterial system, in the greater part, very extensive. An un- soundness of the aorta in various degrees is