An essay on the dropsy and its different species / By Donald Monro.

  • Monro, Donald, 1727-1802.
Date:
1765
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: An essay on the dropsy and its different species / By Donald Monro. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Blood from paffing freely from the Arteries in¬ to the Veins, may have the fame Effeds; hence Uteri by a Root not larger than one’s little Finger. The other was at leaft three Times that Size, and arofe by a Root two Inches thick, from the Uterus at the Place where the right fallopian Tube joins it. The Subftance of the right Tube was greatly enlarged, and filled with a ftea- tomatous Matter, and was befet with five or fix Hyda- tides. An Officer on Board a Tranfport Ship received a violent Blow on his Breaft, which was at firft negledled, there being no Surgeon on Board to bleed him, or give him any proper Diredlions. When he came to England^ he had a violent Difficulty of Breathing, attended with hectic Symptoms, for which he confulted a Phyfician of Eminence in Town, but died foon after. His Body was opened. There was a Pint of exfravafated Serum in the Abdomen ; four Quarts of a yellowilii Serum in the Ca¬ vity of the Left Side cf the Thorax ; and the Lungs of that Side were fo comprefl’cd as to have the Appearance of a Piece of Flefh, without any Remains of a Veficuhr Tex¬ ture, and were lefs th-oi the Size of one’s Fift.—In the Right Side of ihe Thorax there were three Pints of the fame fort of Serunii, and the Lungs greatly contra<Si:ed.— The Pericardium was thickened on the Left Side, and contained rather more Water than common ; and there was a large firm Polypous Concreiion in each Ventricle of the