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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    tion, except in ascertaining the frequency of the occurrence. An opinion of the great affinity between scurvy and dropsy has long prevailed; to which Sydenham alludes when he quotes the saying, ubi scorbutus desinit ibi incijnt hydrops.* He considered it as the part of an erroneous doctrine then in fashion, by which almost all chronic diseases were at times pronounced scorbutic, and asserts the maxim to be true, only in a more limited sense, that where the dropsy appears, the preconceived notion with regard to a scurvy falls to the ground. But it seems to me not unaptly to delineate several of these cases, which are connected with dropsy, by a re- semblance in the urine, and by a general similarity of symptoms with the scurvy. Ex- perience can alone shew how far the coagu- lable state of this discharge extends in scor- butic cases. An assertion of Hoffman would lead us to believe that it is very common. He remarks, that in confirmed scurvy, the * Sydenham Opera, p. 2^6, feci:, vi. cap. v. de Rheumat.