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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    [24 ] coming acrimonious ; or whether it depends on the paucity of fluids contained in thofe veflels. Doctor Cullen aflerts that there is no tenacity in the fluids -, which idea is gen- erally adopted. But then he does not deny that there may be a thickening of the blood. The ferous part being chiefly feparated, the remaining cranamentum mull necefTarily be more denfe j and the fame caufe, from which this denfity arifes, diminifhes the whole mafs of circulating fluids. It therefore appears natural to fuppofe, that thirft originates from the want of thin and diluting liquids to defend the coats of the veflels from thofe grofler parts of the blood, which exifl in the cranamentum, than from a mere dim- inution of the fluids. The ftomach when evacuated indicates no neceflity of being replenifhed with liquid more than folid fubftances. But let the latter be given alone, and a great degree of thirft takes place j which fliews that it is altogether dependant upon irritation : For the fecreted humors of the ftomach, without the addition of other liquors, being infufneient to mace- rate and diffolve the aliment taken into it, ad- mit