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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    in their own proper Receptacles, or when they are difcharged from them into other Ca¬ vities. 18. Hydroplcal Colledlions may not only occafion other Dropfies by their PrefTure (e)y in the Manner mentioned in Sec. 14 5 but if a Cyft containing morbid Water happens ci- * he once was in Danger of committing fuch a Miftake ; for he had cut through the external Teguments, when the Tumour beginning to fubfide, made him immediately fufpe£t it to be the Gall-Bladder, and to defift from the Operation ; foon after the Patient pafled by Stool fome Pints of Bile, and was cured. He fays that fuch bilious Tumours may be diftinguifhed by their Situation, and an uneafy painful Tenfton about the hepatic Region, follow¬ ed by a Jaundice with abl Its Symptoms 5 without the Pul- fation, acute Pain, or Shivering which accompany Suppu¬ rations of the Liver. Memcii'es de VAcad, de Chirurgie^ voL i. /). 155. (e) The Anafarca in the lowerExtremkies, and Hydrocele in the Scrotum, are often brought on by an Afeites, and difappear whenever the Water of the Belly is drained ofF. The humoral Afthma and Collcflions of Water in the Thorax often caufe a general fubcutaneous Dropfy. thee (
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