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Definition of Dropsies
1. dropsy [n] - See also: dropsy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dropsies
Literary usage of Dropsies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1916)
"The Use of the "Karell Cure" in the Treatment of Cardiac, Renal, and Hepatic
dropsies.—GOODMAN (Arch. Int. Mcd., 1916, xvii, SO!)) has employed the Karell ..."
2. Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal (1820)
"Dr Lewins on Bood-letting in dropsies. His medical attendants, besides these ...
Every one in the habit of treating dropsies, must ave been puzzled and ..."
3. A Text-book of the Physiological Chemistry of the Animal Body: Including an by Arthur Gamgee (1880)
"THE LIQUID IN dropsies. Preliminary remarks on the mode of production of ...
The dropsies which are due to a change in the composition of the blood are most ..."
4. Lectures on the Principles and Practice of Physic Delivered at King's by Thomas Watson, David Francis Condie (1855)
"Prognosis ; and General Principles of Treatment in dropsies. ... I proceed to
speak of dropsies: by which I mean collections of serous liquid in one or more ..."
5. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"(q) dropsies.—To these the author has referred in considering tho prognostic
value of other symptoms and in connection with the dangers of the separate ..."
6. General Surgical Pathology and Therapeutics, in Fifty Lectures: A Textbook by Theodor Billroth (1890)
"Some surgeons wish tn consider these dropsies of the joints, as well as similar
diseases of tin- mucous bursae, as not belonging to the chronic ..."
7. The Dublin Quarterly Journal of Medical Science: Consisting of Original (1851)
"I.—Some further Observations on dropsies, with Albuminous Urine, BY JONATHAN
OSBORNE, MD, MRIA, King's Professor of Materia Medica, Clinical Physician to ..."
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