A supplemental chapter to the first edition of the work on dropsy, by Dr. Ayre : and consisting of cases illustrative of the plan of treatment recommended in that work.

  • Ayre, Joseph, 1781-1860.
Date:
[1829]
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Credit: A supplemental chapter to the first edition of the work on dropsy, by Dr. Ayre : and consisting of cases illustrative of the plan of treatment recommended in that work. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    into the cavity of the chest, producing hydrothorax, and into the body, causing ascites, together with an anasarcous swelling of the limb, constituting a form of dropsy in which the most unfavourable symptoms are present, and the most unfavourable prognosis given, and where the practice pursued, so contrary to the prescribed modes, triumphed over the disease, and procured for the subject of it not merely a temporary respite, but so entire a re- covery, that now, after three years, he still continues free from it. The second case is nearly of the same kind as the first one, but of less intensity. The effusion of the fluid was into the chest and lower limbs, the body being free from it. The treatment was of the same kind, but less active and less prolonged, and the disease fully yielded to it. The patient has continued well since, with the ex- ception of slight relapses from imprudent exposure to cold, and to other obvious causes; but the same treatment readily