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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    arrested them, and re-established him in health. The third case is one of less severity than the two former, from its having come earlier under treatment. There was a slight effusion into the cavity of the chest, along with an anasarcous state of the less, and the disease was gradually advancing to the severer state. It forms, indeed, a good example of that milder form of the com- plaint, in which the symptoms are not unfrequently regarded as anomalous, or confounded with some others, and a treat- ment directed for them as various in its kind as are the opinions entertained of their nature and origin. Like the two last, it yielded to the means employed, and it resembled the first one in the peculiarity here to be noticed, of the conversion of one disease into another, by which the irritation, in a slight degree, became trans- lated from the tissues of the chest to the head, and an affection of the latter super- induced. It is not uncommon in hydropic R 3