Animadversions on the nature and on the cure of the dropsy / translated from the latin into English by F. Swediaur.

  • Sir Francis Milman, 1st Baronet
Date:
1786
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Credit: Animadversions on the nature and on the cure of the dropsy / translated from the latin into English by F. Swediaur. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    1 [ 22 ' ] let it be remembered at the fame time that he firft bled him ’till he almoft fainted, (ad deliquium prope) and then opprefled his weakened powers with this deluge of water. It is thus that perfons become dropfical, who having been exhaufted by labour or difeafe,' drink great quantities of any watery fluid. Hence it was long ago obferved by Hippocrates, that perfons who after a very long journey, meeting with rainy and flag- nant waters, and drinking them, frequently fall into Dropfies. The late Dr. Fother- gill mentions the hiftory of a man who had an almoft incurable degree of anafarca, from having drank for the fpace of a month twelve pints of barley water a day to cure him of a fever. If during the rage and height pf the fever only he had taken this remedy, he would probably have felt no in¬ conveniences from it. For at the beginning and during the increafe of fevers, the Italian phyficians throw in great quantities of wa¬ ter; nor do they fear a Dropfy from what they call their “ diaeta aquea,” But it may eafily happen that a thing may be beneficial during the violence of a diforder, which may be prejudicial in its decline ; and when