An essay on the dropsy and its different species / By Donald Monro.

  • Donald Monro
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1765
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Credit: An essay on the dropsy and its different species / By Donald Monro. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Fevers, Convulfions, and other Symptoms of acrid circulating Fluids: hence we fee how Dropfies may produce many other Diforders,(^). lo. Hydropical Waters, by their PrelTureon the VelTels near them, mud: obftrudl more or lefs the Courfe of.the Blood, particularly in the Veins; and therefore, when this Preffure afFeds any confiderable VelTels, the Heart and Lungs are in danger of being gorged with too much Blood; efpecially when the Motion of the (e) The Surface of the Heart and Pericardium is often eroded by Water contained in this laft named Cavity, of which fee Examples in A£i. Hafnlenf. voL i. ohf. 89. Fran^ Sylvii, Prax. Med. lib. i. cap. 26. fee. 26.—The Diaphragm has been perforated by the Erofion of Water contained in a Cyft in the Thorax. Acl. HafnienJ. voL 2. obf. 16.—The Water of an Afeites became fo acrid and corrupted, that when it was let out after Death, it produced Symptoms equal to thofe proceeding from a Peftilential Vapour, the Perfon who let it out felPinto a Putrid Fever, and angry Puftules arofe from every Part of his Hands or Fingers on which the leaft Drop of the Water had fallen. Philofoph. Franf No. 454. je5t. 4.—In almoft all afcitlcal Bodies we find more or lefs of the Inteftincs inflamed or corroded •m Fluids by the Water, t V ■*% ■ ■ -k
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