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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    [ -,6 ] yet as often has refufed to yield to the moft powerful of thefe applications.—As yet there has been no remedy found in the gardens of philofophy ; no curative plan as yet adopted, which proves an effectual antidote to this difeafe. Though it has long been a fubjecl: of diligent inveftigation among the learned ; its cure, of repeated experiments by many ; yet there are principles of importance, which have efcaped the notice of fome, eluded the fearch of others, and (till remain in a degree of obfcurity. From the confined limits of this differta- tion, fome few hints only can be fuggefted, which it is hoped may be farther illuflrated by fome one, whofe ingenuity and experi- ence may better enable him to attain fo im- portant an object j fo invariably the purfuit of the friends of humanity. As a fymptom of this difeafe, there is fome- times obfervable a diminution of urine, thick and high colored, without any other thing remarkable preceding the approach of hydropic fwelling. It has generally been fuppofed that lofs of tone in the vafcular fyftem