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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    » [ 59 ] not yet appear, * but thefe conclufions may be fairly drawn from the preceding cafe: Firft, that an inflammation, if it fhould arife is not very formidable ; and fecondly, that if proper precautions be taken to flop the canula properly, there is no danger of air getting in. - In the twenty-feventh chapter, Hippocra¬ tes treats of the inflammation of the fpleen, and of the Dropfy arifing from it. Firft he teaches us how to remove the inflamma¬ tion, and then adds 44 If a Dropfy fhould 44 arife from it, it muft be treated with the 44 fame things and in the fame manner as 44 the former ones.” We now proceed to confider what Hippocrates has faid upon the fubject of the univerfal Dropfy. 44 This 44 Dropfy proceeds from thefe caufes, when t* any one after a long journey meets with * Dr. Milman informed me that the abdomen of the wo¬ man'wliofe cafe is mentioned above, did not fill in two years after her quitting the Mlddjefex Hofpital, though after tap¬ ping in the ordinary way die had once filled in ten d^ys. She was at this period induced to apply to another Hofpital, ha¬ ving in her vifits to the Middlefex Hofpital to get medicines as an out-patient after being difcharged from the Houfe, been, uncivilly treated by fome of the feryants. cc rainy