Died, on Sunday last, Mrs. Cox, of 38, Red Lion Street, Clerkenwell, of dropsy : she is supposed to have been the heaviiest woman in London, weighing, at the time of her death, not less than 18 stone ... 13 June, 1830.

M.F. du Chêne miraculously cured from a variety of ailments (dropsy, hemorrhaging, aches, and a disease of the lung) all interelated (?), at the tomb of F. de Paris. Engraving.

M.F. du Chêne miraculously cured from a variety of ailments (dropsy, hemorrhaging, aches and a disease of the lung) all inter-related (?), at the tomb of F. de Paris. Engraving.

An evil demon (dMu) who causes dropsy. Watercolour by a Tibetan painter.

Christ heals a man with dropsy while the Pharisees and lawyers criticise him for healing on a Sunday; Pharisees feast in the background; children play with a donkey on the right. Engraving by E. Rouargue.

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3 volumes : illustrations (some color), plates ; 25 cm

Die Mischgeschwülste / von M. Wilms.

Medical Heritage Library

viii, 116 pages : illustrations, maps (some in color) ; 38 cm

The geographical distribution of heart disease and dropsy, cancer in females & phthisis in females, in England and Wales.

Some notes and cuttings on fibrositis and fibromyositis (for comparison). Foreign body tumours (granulomata etc). Paraffinomata, vaselinomata, and 'tumours' (chronic inflammatory tumours) after various subcutaneous or intramuscular injections. Japanese suppurative myositis and other forms of myositis eg cases of 'rheumatic myositis' and epidemic myalgia ('Bornholm disease') (for comparison). Some atypical cases of Quincke's and other localised oedemas (for comparison). * But see especially my collection 'Erythrodermia with oedema'. Re 'scleroderma adultorum' (Buschke)--for comparison, but see Sclerodermia collection

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Dermatomyositis

Dermatomyositis, polymyositis (1st series). Panniculitis, hypodermic (subcutaneous) sarcoid etc

2 unnumbered pages, 150 , 2 unnumbered pages ; 21 cm

Outlines of the lectures on surgery / delivered by Sir Astley Cooper, bart at St. Thomas's and Guy's Hospitals.

1 print : line engraving with etching ; image 15.5 x 12.9 cm

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Die Mischgeschwülste / von M. Wilms.

The geographical distribution of heart disease and dropsy, cancer in females & phthisis in females, in England and Wales.

Dermatomyositis, polymyositis (1st series). Panniculitis, hypodermic (subcutaneous) sarcoid etc

Outlines of the lectures on surgery / delivered by Sir Astley Cooper, bart at St. Thomas's and Guy's Hospitals.

M.F. du Chêne miraculously cured from a variety of ailments (dropsy, hemorrhaging, aches, and a disease of the lung) all interelated (?), at the tomb of F. de Paris. Engraving.

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Die Mischgeschwülste / von M. Wilms.

The geographical distribution of heart disease and dropsy, cancer in females & phthisis in females, in England and Wales.

Dermatomyositis, polymyositis (1st series). Panniculitis, hypodermic (subcutaneous) sarcoid etc

Outlines of the lectures on surgery / delivered by Sir Astley Cooper, bart at St. Thomas's and Guy's Hospitals.

M.F. du Chêne miraculously cured from a variety of ailments (dropsy, hemorrhaging, aches, and a disease of the lung) all interelated (?), at the tomb of F. de Paris. Engraving.

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