A lecture on dropsy / [George Gregory].

  • George Gregory
Date:
1819
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Credit: A lecture on dropsy / [George Gregory]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    necessary to push it to the extent of nauseating the stomach, although I have heard such an opinion stated by an authority to which I attach the highest value. Purgatives are of great importance in the treatment of arterial Dropsy, and I presume their efficacy depends on that effect upon the general system which induces us to employ them in fevers and inflammations. As they aie scarcely less serviceable in Dropsies of the se¬ cond class, they may with piopriety be con¬ sidered as among the safest and most generally efficacious of all the plans of treatment adopted in this disease. Elaterium appears to possess a power over the arterial s}rstem, but little infe¬ rior to that of digitalis.* On this account it is frequently very advantageously employed in Dropsy. Colchicum is another powerful medi¬ cine of the same class, whose primary agency seems to be upon the circulating system. I have seen it useful in various forms of Dropsy, particularly anasarca, and that species of ana¬ sarca which succeeds or accompanies chronic rheumatism. The treatment of those cases of Dropsy which result from impediments to the motion of the blood through the veins, is to be conducted on * 1 am indebted for this observation to Dr. Ash.
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