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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    dum and frigidum, which appears to me not perfectly correct. The former of these, known by an increased temperature, florid colour and hardness of the parts affected, he considers to be an inflammatory state, and curable by antiphlogistics 5 whilst the latter, a pale and cold cdema, is usually without fever, and to be treated like a common anasarca.* I have not made experiments on the blood of persons so attacked, because J have found them curable by milder means 5 but if there is any analogy between this and other dropsies, the cold and soft cedema is by no means inconsistent with great inflame mation of the habit. Digitalis is its sovereign remedy. Dr. Withering has made this assertion without re- serve respecting the scarlatinous anasarca.f Applied to that form of the disease which we are now considering, it is strictly correct. I know of no,instance where digitalis has failed, when properly exhibited; and I add, * Burferius’ Inftitutes, vo]. 2d, p. 81. + Withering’s Account of the Fox-gloye, p. 25,