An inaugural dissertation on the dropsy : read and defended at a publick examination, held by the medical professors, before the Rev. Joseph Willard, S.T.D. president, and the governors of the University at Cambridge, for the degree of Bachelor in Medicine, July 3d. 1795 / by William Dix, A.M.

  • Dix, William, 1772-1799
Date:
1795
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Credit: An inaugural dissertation on the dropsy : read and defended at a publick examination, held by the medical professors, before the Rev. Joseph Willard, S.T.D. president, and the governors of the University at Cambridge, for the degree of Bachelor in Medicine, July 3d. 1795 / by William Dix, A.M. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ ( ] PROGNOSIS. THE caufes of this difeafe are numerous and various, refulting from the conftitutiori, habits of indulgence, or abftinence, accidents and preternatural caufes. Debility, from whatever fource originating, may give rife to it; particularly from hemorrhages, or any excefilve evacuation. Obftrucrions of the larger or fmaller blood vefTels, from polypi &c. ComnrefTion and ftricture, as -from geftation ; and fchirrous tumors fituated near, or affecting the function of any important organ. It may likewife proceed from violent exertions -3 rupture of a veffel or hydropic cyft. Abufe * of fermented liquors. Ri- gidity of fibre, &c. The methods of cure are next to be treat- ed of, which according to Doctor Monro have been divided into three : And no other divif- ion can, with more propriety, be adopted ; and to him we would refer, as having given a ♦Sydenham siTcrts that dropfy arife* oftener from tills fource than any other.
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