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.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    gulum, but it contains sometimes a white sediment. There is no pretence for saying that any viscus is in these instances unsound in its or- ganization ; and they therefore form ano- ther example of cedematous swellings of the asthenic kind, in which the urinary discharge is not serous. And if the general health be improved by chalybeates, the oedema spon- taneously disappears.