Dropsy
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dropsy · dropsical patient · dropsical persons
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Aphorisms
A named disease of fluid accumulation (edema/ascites), recurring with prognostic rules
When a person has been cured of chronic hemorrhoids, unless one be left, there is danger of dropsy or phthisis supervening.
In a case of dropsy, when the water runs by the veins into the belly, it removes the disease.
In dropsical persons, ulcers forming on the body are not easily healed.
De diaeta acutorum
A swelling disease with two forms (subcutaneous and windy), one fatal, the other treatable through labor, diet, and remedies.
There are two kinds of dropsy, of which the one under the flesh, when one undertakes it, is inescapable;
A drink for one with dropsy: