Dropsy
idea · 2 works · 2 mentions · 9 anchored passages
dropsy · dropsical patient · dropsical persons
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Aphorisms
A named disease of fluid accumulation (edema/ascites), recurring with prognostic rules
Upon leucophlegmatia dropsy supervenes.
Hiccup supervening in dropsical cases is bad.
Dysentery, or dropsy, or ecstacy coming on madness is good.
De diaeta acutorum
A swelling disease with two forms (subcutaneous and windy), one fatal, the other treatable through labor, diet, and remedies.
A drink for one with dropsy:
There are two kinds of dropsy, of which the one under the flesh, when one undertakes it, is inescapable;