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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    tice excites subacute or chronic inflammatory action in the different structures, which speedily produce irremediable disorganization. Let us only contemplate for a moment the probable consequences of the stimulating plan of treatment in the present case. Unequal excitement,—a too vigorous action of the heart and larger vessels of circulation, propelling the blood to the debilitated organs with a velocity infinitely, beyond their powers of disposal: hence dropsies, congestions, inflammations, thickening of textures, and final disorganization of the parenchymatous viscera. Had the treatment of this case been conducted upon the above principles, I have not the least doubt that inveterate or confirmed dropsy would have speedily ensued. When the patient had been reduced to this deplorable situation, she would probably have applied to some hospital, and there ended her days in wretchedness and misery. Dissection would have detected the existence of extensive, incurable organic disease, and the dropsical accumulations would have been attributed to the operation of the manifest changes in the structure of the diseased organs—with what justice let the reader determine.* * I have tins moment returned from visiting a lady in precisely a similar state with this patient. This lady has been married five or six years, suffers severely from leucor-