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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    cing the other symptoms, is worthy of se- rious inquiry. I have seen it when the legs only just begin to swell, and lately in two cases of cachexy, threatening an entire dropsy, it was, to my surprize, wholly wanting. CASE J]. W.E. ztat. 70, of a gouty habit, and very intemperate mode of living, had been declining in health for nearly twelve months, His skin was remarkably pale and transe parent, the pulse nearly 100 low and in- termitting, appetite very bad, bowels irre- gular, faeces pale, urine almost colourless. He did not lie easily on the left side, and complained of a stricture about the lower part of the chest and hypochondria, with some wheezing, and expectoration of a few dark sanious sputa. Suspecting a diseased liver, I ordered very mild mercurials, but without any good ef- fect. He died not long after; a decided =