Researches into the nature and treatment of dropsy in the brain, chest, abdomen, ovarium, and skin : in which a more correct and consistent pathology of these diseases is attempted to be established, and a new and more successful method of treating them / recommended and explained by Joseph Ayre.

  • Ayre, Joseph, 1781-1860.
Date:
1825
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Credit: Researches into the nature and treatment of dropsy in the brain, chest, abdomen, ovarium, and skin : in which a more correct and consistent pathology of these diseases is attempted to be established, and a new and more successful method of treating them / recommended and explained by Joseph Ayre. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    1st. The opinion of a want of tone in the absorbents, as a cause of dropsy, is contra- dicted by the fact, that in those cases, in which it is assumed to prevail, it is found that the adipose matter or fat of the body is removed by the absorbents; or, in other words, that emaciation takes place to as great an extent, and as rapidly, in this as in other diseases ; and emaciation can only be effected by means of absorption. Besides, in these cases of dropsy, mercury, when rubbed upon the surface, or received inter- nally, is absorbed as readily, and affects the system as early, as under other states of the body. There is also no accumulation of the fluids in the joints, or in the bursce mucosce in these cases, which, nevertheless, would happen if there was a general de- bility of the absorbent system ; and ecchi/- ?Jioses or livid spots, though easily induced in anasarcous limbs, are likewise easily re- moved from them by the absorbents. 2dli/. The opinion of a want of tone or energy in the exhalanta, hivolves in it one B 2