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

  • Milman, Francis, Sir, 1746-1821
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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    f [ *4 ■] / < # were freed from Dropfies ; and that when it liappened it was a piece of good fortune to be afcribed rather to the kindnefs of the Gods than to the afliftance of the medical art.” V Here feveral queftions will naturally arife ; it will be particularly afked by what means it has happened that medicines fhould have availed fo little againft this dire difeafe ? Is it that the caufes of this calamity will not admit of relief? or is the ill fuccefs which has attended its treatment to be at¬ tributed to the injudicious methods by which we have attempted to cure it ? Thefe fe* veral doubts will be difcuffed in due order; and that the fubjeft may be elucidated as much as pofiible, I fhall premife fome qbr fervationson the nature of Dropfies, and on the caufes from which they arife. The Dropfy is a fuper-abundant collec¬ tion of a watery fluid in fome cavity of the body. It is here proper to apprize the reader that fmall arteries accompanied with little veins pervade the furface of every cavity of the body ; the former are calculated to pout out a liquor fuited topreferve the parts moift ; the latter to abforb the redundant fluid when