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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    [ *3 ] 4 forts of Dropfy, one of which termed 4 the anafarca, when it attacks a man is 4 fatal. The other the tympanitis, requires 4 great good fortune to cure, and efpe- 6 dally much labour, fomentation, and 6 temperance. Let him eat dry and acrid 4 things, for by thefe means, he will make 4 a great deal of water, and will improve 4 in ftrength ; but if he fhould have a dif- 4 ficulty of breathing, and it fhould be 4 fummer, and he fhould be in the vigour 4 of life, and poflefs much ftrength, it 4 will be proper to draw blood from the 4 arm. Then let him eat bread of dry 4 qualities, fteeped in dark wine and oil, 4 let him drink as little as poffible, labour 4 much, and eat the flefh of young fwine 4 boiled in vinegar, that he may be able to 4 fupport the fevere exercife.” In reading the works of Hippocrates, it is of the greatefl confequence to diftinguifh fuch as -are certainly genuine, or are with great reafon referred to him, from thofe which are falfely afcribed to him. If you neglefl this caution, you will be very apt, as Haller juftly obferves, to make Hippocra- l tes