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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    concoded and affimilated to the other Juices (^} 5 by cold moift Air {u); by violent long-conti¬ nued Exercife (w); by the too liberal Ufe of fpirituous Liquors (x), which ftimulate and harden the Size of a Hen’s Egg, a little below the Navel, occa- fioned by three Stones in the Cellular Membrane under the Skin ; the largeft weighed a Drachm, the fecorid two Scru¬ ples, and the leaft about half a Drachm. Primit, Phyjic, Med. PolonieSy vol. ii. q}?/, 9,—’Lower tried a very pretty Experiment to afeertain this Caufe of the Dropfy ; he made a Ligature on the inferior Vena Cava of a Dog, and in a few Hours the Animal expired : a great Quantity of Wa¬ ter was collected in the Belly, as if the Creature had long laboured under an Afeites. He found too, that tying the Jugular Veins made the Head cedematous. De Corde^ cap. 2. p. 128, (j) A Dropfy of the Breaft and Belly, from bad Diet, and a fedentary Life. Hoffman^ tom. 3. de Hydrope^ obf. 6. (u) An anafarcous Swelling of the Head from Cold. Binninger, obf. cent. i. obf. (w) ADropfvof the Breaft, from too violent Exercife. JVdlis Pharm. Ration, p. 2. feSf. i. cap. 13, (x) A Dropfy of the Breaft, from Cold and drinking Spirits, Hoffman., tom. 3. de Hydrope^ obf 7.—A Drop- fy with two Relapfes, from drinking Spirits. Lijier. » Exercit, f
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