A Short treatise on the several usual forms of dropsies: and, also, on asthma, epilepsy, chronic liver diseases, &c., &c : Together with a number of recipes, beneficial in various diseases; to which is added, a new pathological view of pulmonary consumption. All which is original with the author ... there is also appended, an English translation of the rules by which some men judge diseases by what may be seen in urine / by Dr. John S. Fall.

Fall, John S.

Date:: 1851

Credit: A Short treatise on the several usual forms of dropsies: and, also, on asthma, epilepsy, chronic liver diseases, &c., &c : Together with a number of recipes, beneficial in various diseases; to which is added, a new pathological view of pulmonary consumption. All which is original with the author ... there is also appended, an English translation of the rules by which some men judge diseases by what may be seen in urine / by Dr. John S. Fall. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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operation of the remedies, will soon enable a prac- titioner to conduct a case through to perfect health, with ease. To aid further in practice, I give daily statements of the condition of the several viscera implicated, and believed to operate as the cause of the dropsic- al effusion now under treatment. I made daily statements from personal presence and observation. This I did usually, twice each day, giving, each time, a particular account of the state of my patient; the state of his pulse, the action of the several emunctories, the state of his nerves, in regard to rest and sleep of nights, if that was important in the case under treatment, &c. Besides one may in those statements, see my treatment, which I tried to adapt, as well as 1 could, to the requirement of my patient. These cases that are given, were cases of more than ordinary derangement of the several struc- tures concerned. Cases of dropsy are bad, or not bad—difficult, or easy to manage, and restore the system to good sound health, according to the de- gree and extent of the viscera] derangement. The functions of these diseased viscera must indicate their soundness or unsoundness. This visceral de- rangement, whether structural or functional, will, usually be worse, in proportion as the disease has been of long standing, or not long. And this is not always graduated by the time of the commence- ment of the effusion. A vise us or structure, may be long in a state of derangement, and often is long so, before effusion takes place. It may be far gone, and disease firmly fixed on it, long before the vessels become prepared to deposit serum copious- ly. And this long continuance of derangement fix- ed upon a structure, is a principal cause of produc- iif| a bad case. 1 am quite confident, too, that tern-

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