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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    [ *5 ] mit of friction upon its coats. In conjunc- tion with this, the diforder is increafed, the humors become depraved, and. the flotn- ach further debilitated. The fkin, in partic- ular, becomes very dry j from which circum- ftance a phenomenon takes place, on which we may account for the increafe of waters, though drink has been cautioufly avoided for a long time. This kind of diet fo much con- fpires with the difeafe, that in hydropic per- fons, who take no drink, a large quantity of fluid will be imbibed from the air; fo that this extraordinary inhalation of moifture muft be imputed to the attraction, which the fkin has to it, from the denial of drink and na- ture of the aliment. The fame principles will apply to the blood. For in fevers an uncommon degree of thirfl is always found. Now the blood, moving with greater velocity from the increafed aclion of the vefTels, pro- duces great irritation upon its coats 5 and this propenfity for liquids is in exact propor- tion to the irritability of the vefTels, and the increafed velocity, with which the blood moves. The immediate caufe of this irrita- tion is the attrition of the red globules up- on the coats of the vefTels, which creates a D frequent