Observations on Dropsy

Some Observations on the Value of Novasurol in Cardiac Dropsy

Case No. 1.?The patient is a lady aged 30. She was anaemic during her pregnancy and gave birth to a child in August 1927. A fortnight after delivery oedema started in the feet and gradually increased, affecting the lower and upper limbs. I was called in to see the case on 14th September, when I noticed extensive dropsy of the body, the face, hands and legs being enormously swollen and tense. Th...

Practical Observations on Dropsy of the Chest (Breslau, 1706)

Dr. Saul Jarcho's several papers on the history of hydrothorax, culminating in the present translation of an authoritative eighteenth-entury 'review article', effectively dispel the idea obtainable from some modem reference works that the history of hydrothorax begins with the introduction of auscultation and percussion. Practical Observations on Dropsy of the Chest was published in Breslau in ...

Epidemic dropsy: Epidemiological, clinical & therapeutic observations in 67 cases

Further Research on Epidemic Dropsy

Observations on Epidemic Dropsy Cases Admitted into the Tropical Diseases Hospital from 1922 to 1933

In the present paper, we have attempted an analysis of the cases of epidemic dropsy admitted into the Carmichael Hospital for Tropical Diseases from the time of its opening in 1922 to the end of the year 1933. During this period a total of 131 cases of the disease were admitted; of these the largest number, i.e., 39, was admitted in the severe epidemic year of 1926. In 1932 when the epidemic wa...