An inaugural dissertation on the dropsy : read and defended at a publick examination, held by the medical professors, before the Rev. Joseph Willard, S.T.D. president, and the governors of the University at Cambridge, for the degree of Bachelor in Medicine, July 3d. 1795 / by William Dix, A.M.

  • Dix, William, 1772-1799.
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1795
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Credit: An inaugural dissertation on the dropsy : read and defended at a publick examination, held by the medical professors, before the Rev. Joseph Willard, S.T.D. president, and the governors of the University at Cambridge, for the degree of Bachelor in Medicine, July 3d. 1795 / by William Dix, A.M. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ry, it fhould be performed with flannels, impregnated with aromatic fumes ; and the external air excluded from the body, to afiifl: the operation of medicines, which are internally received. The abforption of the fluid cannot eafily be effecled from cavities, which are greatly diftended, without previoufly relaxing the fides of the cavities, or drawing off a part of it j for the abforbent veins cannot have power to acl, when the preffure is fo exceed- ingly great. When the artificial methods .of leffening the quantity of water become neceffary, the evacuation muff not be made fuddenly ; for the preffure being diminished, and the blood from the heart, finding lefs refiftance, will overnretch the relaxed parts, #nd often produce inflammation or gangrene • and at the fame time, the other organs, being deprived of their proportion of blood, will become paralytic, or unfit for performing their feveral fun&ions. The ill effects, which fometimes occur from taking away thefe waters, are to be obviated, by moderate- ly difcharging them at different times j by compreffure