Observations on certain dropsical affections which are successfully treated by blood-letting / by J. Abercrombie.

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[1818]
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    OBSERVATIONS ON CERTAIN DROPSICAL AFFECTIONS • iC WHICH ARE I i SUCCESSFULLY TREATED BY BLOOD-LETTING. BY J. ABERCROMBIE, M. D. FELLOW OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS, EDINBURGH. [J’j'ont the Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal^ No. 54.]] ■pERHAPS we have been too much in the habit of considering dropsy as a disease of debility. This opinion seems to have had its origin in the doctrines of the humeral pathology, according to which, dropsical diseases were supposed to be pre- ceded by a morbid tenuity, and accompanied by a morbid viscidity of the blood. The effect of the morbid tenuity was believed to be, that the thinner parts of the blood escaped through the smaller vessels into the various cavities of the body, leaving in the blood-vessels a fluid of morbid viscidity or tena- city, and so much diminished in quantity, as to be wholly ina-