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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    Sauvages, who express by this term not one disease, but a whole class of diseases, inclu- ding emaciations, swellings, and defedations of the skin. Dr. Cullen in particular, as- serts, that what the antients called cachexy, is the true dropsical habit, always the com- mencement of an universal dropsy, and therefore not requiring any separate consi- deration. It is certainly a dropsical habit, and disposed to terminate in the exquisite form of that disease, particularly if any ate ‘tempt is made to remove it by inflaming and tonic remedies. But. sometimes these pa- tients, when the urine is greatly increased in quantity, as in the cases mentioned by Dr. Latham,* and by Mr. Watts of Glasgow, continue rather emaciated than truly drop- ‘sical ; and Boerhaave has well stated amongst the confirmed symptoms of cachexy, marcor wel leucophlegmatia et hydrops.~ Van Swieten adds, in his. commentary, that if the urine is increased in quantity, the body * Latham on Diabetes, p. 139. + Watts on Diabetes, cafe lil. p. 74. t Boerhaaye’s Aphorifms, 1170,