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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    note (edematous swellings differing from each other, and from the common anasarca. These terms have^ indeed, on account of the fanciful theories connected with them, fallen into some neglect; but nothing satis- factory has been substituted in their stead ; and it must be acknowledged that we still remain greatly in need of some rational dis- tinctions of this kind, derived from the con- stitutional circumstances of the disease as well as its situation. It has often occurred to me, that such an arrangement might be much facilitated, by a more accurate enquiry than has hitherto been made, into those remarkable proper- ties of the urine, which characterize a large proportion of dropsies. Writers have spoken of the colour of that secretion, its quantity, its sediment; and it is a circumstance hardly credible, that amidst so much minute la- bour bestowed on these topics, the effect produced on it by the application of heat, should have been so greatly overlooked. Yet the experiment is the easiest possible ;