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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    ! I I ANIMADVERSIONS ON T H £ NATURE AND ON THE CURE t I • / O F DROPSIES. ■ ** t f •* « \ f . 4 / nrhere are few difeafes which occur more frequently than the Dropfy. It is the confequence of many diforders which impair the health of mankind ; the rich and the poor are equally fubjeft to its inva- lion ; it attacks both fexes, and perfons at every period of life ; nor is its milchief only extenfive; it is lo fatal in its effects that authors have furniftied but few inftances of its having been cured. Aretaeus many years ago, obferved “ That very few people were