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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    C *5 ] when it has done its office, and to carry it back into the circulation ; however, if the arteries ffiouid pour out an exceffive quantity of fluid, greater than what the veins can take up or carry back into the blood ; or, ffiouid the quantity depofited by the arteries not exceed the natural and the due portion; if the veins (hould be incapable of doing their duty, a morbid collection of a watery fluid will foon necefl'arily be accumulated; and this effedt is particularly apt to arife in perfons, the fibres of whofe bodies are of a delicate texture : hence the female fex is more liable to this dileafe than the male : hence too it happens that young women la¬ bouring under the Chlorofis, orobftructions, are extremely prone to the Dropfy. Th is difeafe proceeds too very often from a debility of the vital powers of the heart, induced either by exceffive haemorr¬ hages and Ioffes of blood, or by acute dif- eafes of great length. Although this caule may feem very different from a laxity of« fibres, yet is the Dropfy produced by both of them in a manner not very difiimilar; for the vital powers weakened by great evacu- i ations