An enquiry into the nature, causes, and cure of hydrothorax : illustrated by interesting cases, and many living examples of the success of the mode of treatment recommended / by L. Maclean.

  • Maclean, L. (Lachlan), Sir, -1820.
Date:
1810
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Credit: An enquiry into the nature, causes, and cure of hydrothorax : illustrated by interesting cases, and many living examples of the success of the mode of treatment recommended / by L. Maclean. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    disease at some period or other, yet the time of its appearance is various. In idiopathic cases, especially if the bodily strength be not much reduced, the disease makes some pro- gress before the ankles swell; but under cir- cumstances of great weakness they very soon become oedematous. The swelling first appears about the ankles only at night, probably after any unusual exertion, and disappears before morning. By degrees, however, it comes on earlier, and at length soon after getting out of bed, extending upwards, the thighs, scrotum, and indeed the whole body, becoming enormously distended; and in the last stages, suffering very little or no alteration by change of posture. The face* neck, and hands, in some instances become cedematous before the lower extremities; and the limb of one side is generally more affected than that of the other; in some cases, probably owing to the quantity of water being greater in the corresponding cavity than in the other; but in others to the interruption to the return of the venous blood from lying on one side, more than on the other. Sometimes one of the lower extremities swells earlier, and more, than the other, which