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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    She derived immediate advantage from the bitter infusion and alkaline salt, as re- commended by Sir John Pringle, and soon recovered. CASE III. M. S. setat. 50.—Anasarca, ascites, cough, urine pale, rather copious, without sedi- ment, and not at all coagulable by heat or nitrous acid. These complaints had continued for some months, and she attributed them to cold. She was benefited neither by squills, nor calomel, nor digitalis. I understood that she afterwards became jaundiced ; but I am not informed of the event. CASE IV. J. T. zetat. 40, of a sallow countenance, laboured under cough, dyspnoea, pain in the region of the stomach, loss of appetite, and swellings of the.legs.