Observations on the nature and cure of dropsies : and particularly on the presence of the coagulable part of the blood in dropsical urine; to which is added, An appendix, containing several cases of angina pectoris, with dissections, &c. / By John Blackall.

  • Blackall, John, 1771-1860.
Date:
1813
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Credit: Observations on the nature and cure of dropsies : and particularly on the presence of the coagulable part of the blood in dropsical urine; to which is added, An appendix, containing several cases of angina pectoris, with dissections, &c. / By John Blackall. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CHAPTER II. CASES OF DROPSY, IN WHICH THE URINE, NOT COAGULABLE BY HEAT, WAS PALE, CRUDE, AND WITHOUT SEDIMENT, SOMETIMES COPIOUS. -—REMARKS. CASE I. ]VL T. aetat. 12, was just recovering from scarlatina, in which the inflammation of the skin had been severe, and the bowels un- usually relaxed. She had quitted her bed a few days only, and on the evening pre- ceding my visit, the ancles and knees had begun to swell. There was a considerable degree of lan- guor and loss of appetite, a quick and weak pulse, pain of the left side, a loose state of the bowels, and swelling of most of the . c 2