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
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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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    t F3 ] weakened ; and in fact, they arc injurious rather than beneficial, whenever this takes place. Medicines of the diuretic clafs have often proved fallacious j for, by increafmg the urine, they are faid to relax the folids. The neutral falts and native acid of vegetables promote the excretion of urine, and tend alfo, to lefTen the irritability of the fyftem; and therefore, cannot flriclly be confidered as diuretics. When thefe refrigerants are employed, flimulants mould be adminiftered at the fame time. If the diuretics fail of carrying off more water than is exuded from the arte- ries, they are injurious. The fkin, which ought to be attended to, is generally dry j this is to be corrected by diaphoretics, fric- tion and flimulants. Mercurials, antimo- nials and their preparations, all readily in- creafe the cutaneous excretions. Opium has the fame effect; but antimony combin- ed with opium, is much more powerful and efficacious. Doctor Monro particularly recommends that, where friction is necefla- ry,