Volume 1

Medical histories and reflections / by John Ferriar, M. D. physician to the Manchester Infirmary, and Lunatic Hospital.

  • Ferriar, John, 1761-1815.
Date:
1792-1798
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Credit: Medical histories and reflections / by John Ferriar, M. D. physician to the Manchester Infirmary, and Lunatic Hospital. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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

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    I 3o REMEDIES OF DROPSY. given, and a vomit was once directed. But the ufe of the digitalis was fteadily purfued without augmentation, till the twenty-fecond of July, when all her fymptoms were fo much mitigated, that I confented to her defire of leav- ing the houfe. The fwellings were completely reduced, and the pains little, if at all troublefome. I believe fhe has fince relapfed. HISTORY X. ' t John Rowbottom, aged fixteen, was admitted on the feventh of March, 1791. His complaint was of con- fiderable duration. The belly was much enlarged. With a fenfible fluctu- ation j the legs and feet anafarcous, and the face oedematous. His urine was deficient, his tongue white, and his third: exceffive. A florid circum- fcribed rednefs of the cheeks, accom- panied him through the whole difeafe. 1