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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    CASE VII. A. W. aetat, 58, had been subject for more than two years to frequent returns of pain in the right side, attended by cough and dyspnoea. These symptoms bad latterly become fixed, with considerable anasarca, and a copious pale urine, not coagulable. She derived not the least benefit from fox- glove, calomel, squills, or strong purges, and soon died. The urine above described as pale, crude, and apparently diluted, is not very common in dropsical complaints. No coagulation is produced by heat or nitrous acid. In two instances, however, where I made the experiment, the addition of the oxymuriate of mercury detected the presence of a small quantity of albumen. In the same instances the infusion of galls caused a very partial coagulation, less, cer- tainly, than is observed in many other drop-