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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    cient consequence to form part of the title-page of his work.* This symptom was the pivot upon which he turned in every page of his volume, and throughout, it was magnified into a degree of importance, of which subsequent observation seems to me to have proved it altogether unworthy. Yet with these imperfections, Dr. Blackall s is still a most valuable book, and a great number of very interesting facts regarding Dropsy are there stated, and fully illustrated. The character which it very speedily acquired throughout the island sufficiently proved the value which was set by the profession upon his views. It has since come to a second edition, and this I mention as a proof of the tacitly received understanding of the incorrectness of the old doctrines, and of the necessity which existed for some improved pathology in this disease. Impressed with this belief so far back as 1810, I communicated to a Society, established in this part of the metropolis for the promotion and diffusion of Medical Science,^- some ob- * Dr. Blackall’s Book is entitled ff Observations on the Nature and Cure of Dropsies, and particularly on the pre¬ sence of the coagulable part of the Blood in Dropsical Urine.” London, 1813. f The Westminster Medical Society, the meetings of
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