Animadversions on the nature and on the cure of the dropsy / translated from the latin into English by F. Swediaur.

  • Milman, Francis, Sir, 1746-1821
Date:
1786
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Credit: Animadversions on the nature and on the cure of the dropsy / translated from the latin into English by F. Swediaur. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    / [ 2°: ]' own cbnfeffion the difeafe came on {lowly, ana did not arife fuddehly, I am inclined to attri¬ bute to an obftruction of the blood in its courfe through the lungs. For in a body almoft continually agitated by too much exercife and violent motion, ini pi ration mu ft be per¬ formed by ft arts and catches ; and when thb air veficles or bronchiae of the lungs are not fairly and fully expanded, the blood will have a difficult paflage through them, and being frequently accumulated in them. Will continually diftend their veflels and make way for its thiner part into the cheft. Experience furnilhes us with cafes to illus¬ trate this explanation. People fubjeft to the afthma are very liable on account of the difficult paflage of the blood through the 'lungs to the dropfy of the cheft, and even 'to the afcites and analarca. 1 \ • * - \ ■ •. « ; / \ 4, A tenuity of the fluids is frequently re- -proached with being the caufe of dropfies, and authors often •afcribe them folely to a fuperabundant proportion of watery par¬ otides in the blood. Asa proof of it, the experiments of Hales are often quoted; by which it is pretended to be taught* “ that