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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    [ 2° ] or Milman, yet the neighbouring vefTels were io frequently rendered inactive, the fwell- ing enfued in confequence of the repeated ap- plication of cold drink. What has been faid with refpect to dropfy, being the moft common effect of cold fubftances, when taken in too great quantities into the ftomach, naturally leads to the enquiry ; what conftitutions are moft fubject to it; and why dropfy, independent of cold, oftener exhibits itfelf in the form of afcites, than any other fpecies of the difeafe. —Thofe delicate habits, which are more fre- quently met with in females, are moft liable to it. This in part may be accounted for, from the laxity of fibre, and preternat- ural evacuations, fo peculiar to them ; and, as they are more or lefs copious, may be confideredas conftituting one predifponent caufe of the difeafe, which is in proportion to the evacuation. Persons of both fexes are more frequently affected by afcites, than any other fpecies of the difeafe ; and not recollecting that any phyfiological