Clinical report on dropsies : with observations explanatory of their pathology and therapeutics ; with an appendix on the theory and treatment of organic disease in general / by Robert Venables.

  • Venables, Robert, M.D.
Date:
1824
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    is guided more by the usual symptoms of disease, than by any properties which this excretion may exhibit. Although fully sen- sible how inadequate I am to settle a point of such importance,* yet I feel it my duty to declare, that I look upon this symptom as one of the highest moment. It proves the inflammatory-f- tendency of the system, and how highly charged the blood is with coagulable matter. A cooling and anti- phlogistic treatment and regimen are in such cases more imperiously required; — at least such is the result of my experience. The Appendix, upon the Theory and Treatment of Organic Disease in general, I think, possesses some interest. Organic diseases have been long regarded as the source of that general disturbance with # « Non nostrum inter vos tantas componere lites. t The report of the appearance on the 12th, at p. 54, and the observation in the note, p. 55, may appear directly contradictory. The observation at p. 54 regards the serum. A dense and milky appearance I regard as indicative of an inflammatory state of the blood; and in the first impres- sion I had introduced a conclusion to this effect. How- ever, I thought it better to submit this opinion to the test of future experience before adopting any conclusion upon the subject.