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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    L 6z ] ic water, it neverthelefs appears, that Hip- <c pocrates attempted to expel waters, col- <c levied within the body, out of it, by “ water drank in very large quantities.” An emaciated perfon Hippocrates even advices to ufe the fame means of cure, but before he takes any medecine he orders his body to be fomented, for the exprefs pur- pofe of giving efficacy to it. Every one at all converfant in the treatment of this dif- eafe, knows, that in it’s advanced ftage, the inhalation by the pores of the fkin is much increafed; fomentations therefore, are likely to moiften the body effe&ually. Thefe words afford us a ufefu.l leffon to avoid to throw acrid medicines into any dry and exhaufted body without preparation, if we are prohibited from doing it in the cafe of a dropfical perfon, without previoufiy moiftening his body. i • . , There are hints refpe&ing the different fpecies of the Dropfy fcattered in various parts of the works of Hippocrates. Thus, in his book on the diet proper for perfons in acute difeafes, we read, “ there are two “ forts