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

  • Donald Monro
Date:
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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    187. Thefe incyfted Dropfies feldom yield to internal Medicines, and while the Sacs re-’ than Walnuts ; upon examining thefe Veficles they ap¬ peared to be no other than the Ovula of the Ovarium dif- tended to that monftrous Size ; he fays, if you can ima- ' gine about forty Bladders of different Sizes tied together like a Reeve of Onions, you have an Idea of this Ovari¬ um ; the whole Veficles contained about 112 lb. of Se¬ rum. Philof. Tranf. No. 140.—In a Woman, who died of a Dropfy, the left Ovarium was fwelled to a prodigious (» Size, fo as to weigh thirty-feven pounds; it was divided into a great many Cyfts oddly complicated together ; fome contained a clear Water, others a gelatinous Liquor, others a Fluid like Cream, others like Tallow. In fome Parts it had a glandular, in others, a flefhy Appearance,' The O- rheritum too Was thickened and divided into Cyfts that con- - tamed different Sorts of Fluids fomething in the fame Manner. The Weight of thefe Subftances prefling on the fmall Guts had brought on a Gangrene, of which the Pa¬ tient, died in two Days. Ridley obf. Med. praSi, ^ phyfioU ohf. 33.—See DiflTedtions of hydropic Ovaria in Nuck Ade^ nograph, cap. 8.—Philof. Tdranf No, 466.—Bonet. Sepulcb»' anat. lib. m. cap. 7.1.—In the Body of a Woman wha died of a Dropfy, the right Ovarium was nealr a Footlorrg,'
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