CALOMEL AS A DIURETIC IN CARDIAC DROPSY.

Diuretic therapy and diuretic resistance in cardiac failure.

s 40 venous capacitance within a few minutes before any with oedema is defined as a clinical state where the braking phenomenon occurs before the therapeutic measurable increase in urinary output can be seen [1,2]. This rapid haemodynamic improvement is goal is reached. thought to be due to the release of vasodilatory prostaglandins [3]. However, in a study in patients with severe oedema, i.v. ...

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...

Epidemic Dropsy in Calcutta

This Memoir is a continuation of that by Major Greig, of the same name, numbered 45. It gives a complete history of the recent outbreak of epidemic dropsy in Calcutta, but does not contain much that is new on that subject. There is a valuable note on the outbreak resembling beri-beri which took place in the Basti Jail in 1910, but we do not learn if the disease was beri-beri or epidemic dropsy....

Epidemic Dropsy in Bihar

Epidemic Dropsy

It would prolong tliia already lengthy paper unduly were I to enter on a discussion of that protean malady, beri-beri, with the literature of which I have pretty fully acquainted myself, or to refer to other epidemics of dropsy which have been described as prevailing in Brazil and elsewhere. I beliSve that the term beri-beri has been applied to a number of different diseased conditions, and tha...