An inaugural dissertation on general dropsy : submitted to the examination of the Rev. John Ewing, S.T.D. provost, the trustees and medical professors of the University of Pennsylvania, for the degree of Doctor of Medicine, on the 8th day of May, 1793 / by John Newnan, of Salisbury, in North Carolina.

  • Newnan, John, approximately 1773-1833.
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MDCCXCIII [1793]
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Credit: An inaugural dissertation on general dropsy : submitted to the examination of the Rev. John Ewing, S.T.D. provost, the trustees and medical professors of the University of Pennsylvania, for the degree of Doctor of Medicine, on the 8th day of May, 1793 / by John Newnan, of Salisbury, in North Carolina. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and hence we are able to account for dropfy being more prevalent in Holland and other fenny countries, than in thofe where the air is more pure 'and dry. Section V. The PROXIMATE CAUSE O F dropfy I fuppofe to be excefs or defecl: of aftion in the arterial fyftem, accompanied by an effufion of water in one or more parts of the body. The idea of this excefs of aftion taking place in certain dropfies, is fuppcrted by a number of arguments ; but I Ihall mention only a few of the molt obvious, fuch as, the full and hard pulfe, which I prcfume no attentive obferver will deny, to be perceived in fome dropfies. The infatiable thirft that fo often attends this diforder. The above opinion is farther con- firmed by the high coloured urine, fizy blood, and fever, that often attend the complaint; all which fymptoms indicate too much action in the fyftem. The opinion is farther fupported, by con- templating the injurious effects of certain me- dicines in this difeafe, fuch as opium, wine and ardent {pints, whole indifcriminate ufe has been productive of much injury to the fyftem. That this exceflive action prevails in drop- fy, is to be inferred from the remedies that have been known to cure it, cither by acci- dent