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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    till an over-dose produced vomiting and di- arrhoea, and she could never bear a repeti- tion of that medicine. The bitter infusion with alkaline salt was then directed for her with great advantage, and under the use of Griffiths' Chalybeate Mixture, she entirely recovered. ' CASE II. Mary Gibbons, aetat. 40, was admitted into the Hospital, 1799, on account of a confirmed syphilis, and whilst under an ac- tive mercurial course principally by fric- tion, was seized with a violent diarrhoea attended by discharges of bloajd, to which succeeded an ascites and anasarca of the lower extremities with great weakness and loss of appetite. The urine gave no coagulum by heat or nitrous acid. It was of a natural colour, rather scanty, and deposited an inconsider- able branny sediment.